At 22:36 13/04/2000 +0000, john smith wrote:
>hi,
> I am trying to follow the advices given to me to read life with qmail. I
>have successfully reached the building process. so far so good. now my
>question is about ./config . how should I configure my dns? I don't think I
>have a domain. I only have a hostname. Do I use my ISP's domain name? i.e.
>./config-fast mycomputer or hostname.earthlink.com? would that work? or I
>can just name my domain anything?.will that affect the way I send messages
>to the internet? what I have is just one machine and I would like it to be
>able to send (via qmail) and receive email (maybe via fetchmail) to and from
>the internet using preferably qmail and perhaps mutt or pine.
It seems that you installed qmail at a dial up machine. If you want qmail
to serve only outbond email *and* you are a dial up user, you don't have to
think about the DNS.
Just make ./config domain.bogus
after that, the config program will create 4 files in /var/qmail/control/
there are, local, me, rcpthosts and [the one I forgot]
If you do not want to run qmail under tcpserver and still want to run it
from inetd, because you are using qmail just on a dial up machine, you
could then just delete the rcpthosts file, although it would make qmail
open relay.
Then you have to install serialmail which you can get at
http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html
Or, if your dial up connection is on almost everyday, just add smtproutes
at /var/qmail/control . Fill smtproutes with your SMTP of your provider.
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