Dear Nick, Read your reply to Daniel Mashao and it was very informative. I too am setting up a e-mail server and have the following question? To have a smtp mail server set up on the linux machine do i need a name server which is authorative for my sub-domain or will a caching only server be good enough to perform the function? In fact is it at all necessary to have dns on my server when the isp has a nameserver of their own? Look forward to your reply. Best Regards, Eugene
---Nick Busigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: > > > Does anybody have an idea of how to best set-up an offline email system? I > > cannot find suitable information from the man pages etc. > > Setting up email on a UNIX system can be a challenge as it involves > configuring a number of different programs to co-operate with one another. > While this may be a bit of work, it provides a great deal of flexibility. > > > What I want is the system that I can 'send' email while my machine is > > off-line and then sometime later when I use a ppp connection, my system > > will then send the email outside. I have tried both smail and sendmail > > unfortunately they just write error messages about the email address not > > being reachable etc. > > > > I can use netscape but I have several users on my machine and it would not > > be economical to let each person connect separately or for too long. > > You may want to consider using uucp as a mail transport system between you > and your Internet provider. It requires a little more setup at your end > and at the end of your Internet Provider, but it has a number of > advantages: > > 1) You can have as many mail user-ids as you want on your system and you > don't have to ask your Internet provider to do anything to add/delete > mail accounts as you are in charge of this yourself. > > 2) Mail transfers between your system and your Internet Provider's system > are automated. (I have my system check every 15 minutes to see if > there is any outgoing email. If there is, it establishes a uucp > connection and exchanges email with my Internet Provider. Otherwise, > it polls my Internet Provider on an hourly basis to see if there is > any incoming email). The connections and transfers are quite short > and efficient. > > 3) You can set up mailing list software such as majordomo or smart list > on your Linux box and have it work well with this type of setup. > This is possible, because you are the one assigning mail user-ids > instead of your Internet Provider. Your Internet Provider just > forwards all email that is identified as going to your machine. > > There are a number of documents/books that you may find useful: > > a) Sendmail+UUCP mini-HOWTO > b) The "bat book" by Eric Allan (it's the O'Reilly Sendmail book > with a bat on the front cover). > c) Taylor uucp documentation. The doc's that come with Taylor's > uucp are really very good. I believe they are in info format. > d) O'Reilly's uucp book is also quite good. > e) The BSDi web site had a good document on the nuts and bolts of > setting this up from an Internet Provider's standpoint. The > URL for this used to be: > > http://www.bsdi.com/support/faq/BSD_OS-2.1/sendmail-doc.etx > > but it may have changed, as last time I looked at it was back in > July/97. > > Finally, if you want, I can send you some notes and example uucp and > sendmail configuration files to use as a starting point. (I've helped a > few people do this before and kept a copy of the stuff I sent them.) > > Best regards, > Nick > > - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Nick Busigin <Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: "get pgp-key" > - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.3ia > Charset: noconv > Comment: Nick Busigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > iQCVAwUBNNMx6qOTonS/KSgFAQEjqgQAhFnrcmr9g7l7TqXUTAtjLFEfMBLU0G0o > vs0U5MGn6Jd5PU5z+ur5dLGneEVlRyI8qTGsg/40UFF7PUJY8frE5OTRLoNSE6Q7 > mLIVDCPl/C/UKsxtcKJ6ftrx+OwiYFhkkIScAZy1uc0/cmlX0Bw/Bbt+xNChG2nT > 1hZzK6zuwAg= > =eLAT > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
