On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 15:25 +0530, Abilash Praveen M wrote: > I have sendmail (iam not sure if sendmail is used to accept incomming > emails) and I created a sub.thisbox.com in the local domains list. I > think created an alias somone and asked it to send emails to my > hotmail address. So, I assumed that when I send an email to > someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx it would go to my hotmail address. But it > doesn't happen to be so. I don't get a undelivered message.. but it > seems to have gone into the queue for unknown reasons. By local domains list, do you mean the file /etc/mail/local-host-names? And you have sub.thisbox.com listed there? Also, to enable sendmail to listen on other than loopback, you need to edit the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file and look about 3/4 the way down for the line below... DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl And add a dnl in front of that line such as below... dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl And if you have your alias setup to go a hotmail account, did you use a .forward file in your user home dir or did you edit the /etc/aliases file? Just restart sendmail once that is all complete and you should be all set. > > Can I request you please to help me out setting up my email server? I > might need to also host my thisbox.com emails once I succeed with this > sub. I might probably need pop3 access too. I found that centos was > not very much helpful for me.. but i'm not sure if FC4 list would help > me cuz I might sound too newbie???? And once you are ready and want to add thisbox.com, again just edit /etc/mail/local-host-names and add it and restart sendmail and off you go. You'll have to use one of the programs that FC has to enable pop3, such as dovecot or cyrus-imapd or whatever. Hope this helps, -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "Everything is always harder, before it's easier!
