On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 04:55, Abilash Praveen M wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a newbie to linux. I'd been using Centos for a couple of weeks. > Now I've changed my box to FC4. I however do not have enough > experience in handling mail servers. I have setup everything except > the mail server. I already have my MX changed to point to this box.. > but I'm not sure how I would setup all emails to > someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx come to my nix box. The sendmail setup should be the same for fedora or Centos. They ship sendmail intentionally broken so as not to accept any mail from outside sources. The first step, if you haven't already done it, is to fix the broken part. Be sure you have installed the sendmail-devel package yum install sendmail-devel In /etc/mail/sendmail.mc change: DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl to DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Name=MTA')dnl and execute 'make' to rebuild sendmail.cf, then put all the domain names you wish to accept thisbox.com sub.thisbox.com in the /etc/mail/local-host-names file and restart sendmail (note that you must restart sendmail after changing sendmail.cf or local-host-names but not most of the other files). To permit outbound email, edit /etc/mail/access and add lines like 192.168.0 RELAY for all your internal network addresses that should be able to forward mail though this box. (Other addresses will only be able to send to destinations configured as local). Run 'make' again to rebuild the access database. > 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. Look at /var/log messages to see what is happening. When things are in the queue you can sendmail -v -q to force a delivery attempt and watch the responses. > 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???? Centos/fedora should have no differences in capabilities or configuration. Because of the nature of the distributions you'll probably find more people running servers on the centos list. And anyone who successfully rebuilds a sendmail.cf (even with the handy tools) shouldn't be consided a newbie. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
