Mike & Tracy Holt wrote: > Hello all, hope this isn't too newbie. > Here's my dilema: > I'm on dsl behind a netgear router using portmapping to my linux server > which handles a web page, ftp, quake server, etc... I've been wanting to > set up an email server for learning experience; so people could email me > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I finally sat down and tried it using postfix, yet I don't have a CLUE > what I'm doing! I thought this would be as simple as setting up http; > just start the postfix daemon, make sure there is a user account on the > server, then just jump on another computer and send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it should automatically appear on my server - > right? I can't find squat for online docs (in simple terms at least) and > it's just not working the way I expect :-( > > Help? > Mike > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
Umm Jump on the machine running postfix and use mozilla to go to https://127.0.0.1:10000 login is root password is your root password click on the servers tab click on postfix click on general Now the doamin names you receive mail for are your hostname or your host's domain or what you fill in the blank. The most powerful blank filling you can do is name a file like /var/postfix/mydomains then fill that file with hostnames and IP addresses if your host doesn't have nameservice. I had a domain with mail to the domain forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and postfix was set to that same 209..... Later I reassigned nameservers so they were the ones my ISP used, and then I had to change to the named domains. YOu will see there are a lot of variables for postfix configuration (about 100) but those first three will make a working mailserver. Please note that there is a link for nearly every one of the variables and the link is to aqn info/explanation page. Good luck with your mail... Oh yes, make sure you allow the mail to try the null MX domain otherwise users trying to mail each other on the local net may get "mail loops back to me" errors. Civileme
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