At 5/1/2002 10:00 PM -0500, you wrote:
>I can't justify to my wife to spend $700 for a piece of software
>that we only use at home in a non-commercial environment especially
>since it's not working 100%.
Definitely don't buy that thing. You can do all this for free and well.
>(1) 10 or so Email addresses that I can access via pop3 (Outlook XP/2002
>INSIDE my firewall) that the outside world can send mail to. I use a
>dyndns.org address currently and everything is fine there. I also need
>to be able to get to these mailboxes from my workplace. Which would be
>better? Sendmail, Postfix or what?
I've heard good things about Postfix but haven't tried it. Sendmail will
also do everything you want, and despite everything I hear Sendmail is
quite easy to set up. You need to:
* Install the sendmail, sendmail-doc, and sendmail-cf RPM's.
* Edit your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc to:
- Allow connections from outside (read near the bottom).
- Enable SMTP AUTH for selective password-authorized relaying.
This requires trivial modifications to a couple of lines; if
you don't know what they are, write me. (I'd post it right
here but it's late and I'm away from my server.)
- Add some blacklist checks to reduce spam (see a recent post
by Michael Fratoni, within the last week or so, with
"spamcop" somewhere in the subject
* Generate a new /etc/sendmail.cf (instructions are at the top
of /etc/mail/sendmail.mc which you've been working on).
* Restart sendmail.
This should take all of two minutes, including installing the software. Red
Hat includes POP/IMAP servers as well (make sure the imap RPM is
installed). You now have everything you need.
I strongly discourage the use of qmail since you need to compile it, any
changes require altering or patching the source code then recompiling, it's
unfriendly as all hell, and I've seen you ask about a thousand questions on
this list whereas on the qmail list they'd insult your ass back to
Arkansas. (Been there.) They think qmail is God's gift to the Universe and
you should thank it for existing, then mold your life around it.
If you wish to consider an alternative to Sendmail, it should be Postfix or
Courier.
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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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