On Friday, May 8th 2009 at 15:39 -0000, quoth Steven W. Orr: =>I have some crappy laptop running windoze and I want to connect to my =>home server to send and receive my mail. I got the dovecot/imap side =>working but I need to know what to do to be allowed to use my server at =>home which runs sendmail as my SMTP server. Is there a gentle howto =>that's uptodate WRT F~10? Can I just auth by password or do I really =>need to go the whole certificate magilla? What packages are needed? On Friday, May 8th 2009 at 16:12 -0000, quoth Kevin J. Cummings: =>If you add the laptop to your /etc/mail/access file (configure as RELAY), you =>should be able to use your sendmail directly (port 25). Or, you could =>configure sendmail to use MSA on port 587 with login credentials. Finally, =>you could enable SSL (smtps) on port 485, but ISTR that it requires =>certificates be set up. I created a dummy self-signed certificate on my =>server machine, and I use it for each client on my local network which wishes =>to send email through my server. =>Whether its Windows or Linux, I use the same setup in Thunderbird. Sorry but this is exactly what I didn't want. When I said gentle I really meant it. If I'm sitting in a hotel then how does my access file know if it's my laptop? What is MSA with login creds? How do I enable SSL, and what is ISTR? On Friday, May 8th 2009 at 16:23 -0000, quoth Tom Horsley: =>On Fri, 8 May 2009 15:39:53 -0400 (EDT) => =>I setup self-signed certificates for doing an ssl connection =>to postfix and dovecot running on my home server. Postfix seemed =>less terrifying to configure than sendmail and there is a nifty =>feature to let postfix and dovecot share authentication so I =>don't need to duplicate passwords. I didn't find it too horrible =>to get working. I dragged the public half of the cert to work =>on a USB key and told my mailer: "Here, this is a perfectly good =>cert.", so it wouldn't bug me about the self signed stuff. And thanks but sendmail is the smtp server. Switching to postfix is not in the cards. -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
