On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 10:52:50AM -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Chris G wrote: > >> My advice would be something similar: Configure by the book. Make sure > > > > What book?! :-) I think that's much of the problem, there's not > > much information directly related to setting up a home system as a > > sub-domain. > > > This may be the time to change from Sendmail to Postfix. I find > Postfix much simpler to configure. I have it set up here that mail > for *.infinity-ltd.com and infinity-ltd.com is delivered locally on > this machine. Mail for other domains is relayed through > mail.infinity-ltd.com (The mail server at my web hosting service.) > Before I convinced my ISP to allow outgoing port 25 contact to that > mail server, I had it configured to relay through the ISP's mail > server. With the exception of the auth configuration for using the > relay server, it took less the 5 minutes to configure. (If I was > willing to use plain-text passwords with the mail servers, it would > have been a snap.) > When (a while ago) I wanted a full mail setup on my machine I used postfix and, as you say, it was very easy. However doing a whole mail server installation just to get to see status/error messages for root seems a bit like overkill to me. -- Chris Green
