Do you mind sending me the instructions you used to setup email with Postfix or sendmail and dovecot? I'm been having a hard time setting up email.
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark Haney Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 2:05 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: [SPAM] - RE: Setting up a mail server - Found word(s) listerror in the Text body.
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:00:59 -0500, Slade Hornick shornick@txfb.org wrote:
No scanning needed, another server has already done that. I would
like
some suggestions on which programs to use and then a starting point to get
me
going. Like I said, I've tried several things, but nothing is working
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so I'm back to the starting point and just need some pointers.
Ex: Use Postfix to receive mail Use Courier-imap to view mail from OE on a windows machine
Well I just setup a sendmail server to receive and send and dovecot for
users to pull using either IMAP for POP3. It took about 30 minutes to setup once I worked through some of the config changes in sendmail and it is working great. Postfix works well too and I would recommend it if you are not comfortable with sendmail.
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:55:01 -0400, Lance.Spence@cox.com wrote:
Do you mind sending me the instructions you used to setup email with Postfix or sendmail and dovecot? I'm been having a hard time setting up email.
Here's a link to the article I used to walk through the steps of setting up sendmail. About the only thing I needed to worry about with dovecot, was changing the dovecot.conf file to use pop3 as well as imap.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5507
HTH
Am Mi, den 30.06.2004 schrieb Mark Haney um 17:58:
Here's a link to the article I used to walk through the steps of setting up sendmail. About the only thing I needed to worry about with dovecot, was changing the dovecot.conf file to use pop3 as well as imap.
Mark Haney
From the linuxjournal article: ---quotation--- This machine has an address of 192.168.100.134 on the eth0 interface. Once you have that address, edit the /etc/sendmail.cf file and configure the sendmail dæmon to listen on the address.
# SMTP daemon options
O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA
change to
O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=192.168.100.134, Name=MTA
Once you have completed this task, save this file and restart the sendmail dæmon using the rc script /etc/init.d/sendmail. ---quotation end---
That is bad bad bad. Don't edit the sendmail.cf! The risk to do something wrong is much higher than using sendmail.mc, you won't be able to tranport individual settings onto a different machine with different setup (at least not without headaches), and - most important - you will loose all changes by the sendmail init script on Fedora once you changed the sendmail.mc as it automatically rebuilds the sendmail.cf from the sendmail.mc!
Too it is wrong to exchange the localhost IP to the individual host address! That will prohibit a proper running Sendmail daemon as he is still no more listening on localhost. That will cost you a good part of functions. Either comment out the DAEMON_OPTIONS line in the sendmail.mc as documented in there or if you want to limit the daemon on a part of your available IPs then add DAEMON_OPTIONS lines for each IP you want to have Sendmail listening on.
Alexander
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:09:52 +0200, Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz@uni-bielefeld.de wrote:
From the linuxjournal article: ---quotation--- This machine has an address of 192.168.100.134 on the eth0 interface. Once you have that address, edit the /etc/sendmail.cf file and configure the sendmail dæmon to listen on the address.
That is bad bad bad. Don't edit the sendmail.cf!
Alexander
Yeah that was my fault I had a SQLServer 2000 DB crash about the time I was writing this email and sent it in a hurry prior to putting that in.
Hmm - naughty, naugthy! One should never edit the sendmail.cf file directly. Much rather edit the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file and run 'make' - which rebuilds the sendmail.cf file.
If you ever make a change to your .mc file and run make by mistake, you'd overwrite your .cf file and you'd spend hours afterwards trying to figure out, what went wrong and why mail no longer works.
The mc file makes more sense, too, at times. But then, these are just mho ;-)
Best regards, Chris
On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 12:09, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am Mi, den 30.06.2004 schrieb Mark Haney um 17:58:
Here's a link to the article I used to walk through the steps of setting up sendmail. About the only thing I needed to worry about with dovecot, was changing the dovecot.conf file to use pop3 as well as imap.
Mark Haney
From the linuxjournal article: ---quotation--- This machine has an address of 192.168.100.134 on the eth0 interface. Once you have that address, edit the /etc/sendmail.cf file and configure the sendmail dæmon to listen on the address.
# SMTP daemon options
O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA
change to
O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=192.168.100.134, Name=MTA
Once you have completed this task, save this file and restart the sendmail dæmon using the rc script /etc/init.d/sendmail. ---quotation end---
That is bad bad bad. Don't edit the sendmail.cf! The risk to do something wrong is much higher than using sendmail.mc, you won't be able to tranport individual settings onto a different machine with different setup (at least not without headaches), and - most important - you will loose all changes by the sendmail init script on Fedora once you changed the sendmail.mc as it automatically rebuilds the sendmail.cf from the sendmail.mc!
Too it is wrong to exchange the localhost IP to the individual host address! That will prohibit a proper running Sendmail daemon as he is still no more listening on localhost. That will cost you a good part of functions. Either comment out the DAEMON_OPTIONS line in the sendmail.mc as documented in there or if you want to limit the daemon on a part of your available IPs then add DAEMON_OPTIONS lines for each IP you want to have Sendmail listening on.
Alexander
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