On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 12:34, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Hi. I'm running Red Hat 9 and I have a domain (espersunited.com) and I > would like to set up my own mail server so that I could set up my own > email addresses @espersunited.com), but I don't know how to do that. > All my searches on the internet have only told me how to set up mail > servers with existing mail addresses, but not how to set up addresses > when the email address doesn't exist yet. Can anyone help me? Thanx! > -Michael Sullivan- Edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and look for below line (bout 3/4 way down the file)... DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl Change to below... dnl # DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl Then edit /etc/mail/local-host-names and add in your domain as well as aliases and localhost, such as below... espersunited.com whatever.espersunited.com localhost Restart sendmail and your all set. There are some DNS things you might need to setup via your A record to point to your mail server name. And then to setup IMAP/POP or whatever to retrieve your emails and you should be all set. -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "Do you hear me now?....GOOD!"
