On Vi, 22 oct 21, 11:09:14, Martin McCormick wrote:
> One more question I should know the answer to but am not sure of.
> The debian Buster system I use for email presently uses fetchmail
> to get mail from the ISP and is configured to use that ISP's
> smarthost for out-going mail. I do not want t
On Fri 22 Oct 2021 at 11:09:14 (-0500), Martin McCormick wrote:
> I was all ready to use .local as our domain name and then
> I looked that up and there is a good wikipedia article which
> explains how that is problematic and recommends using something
> like .lan, .office or something else
On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 11:09 AM Martin McCormick
wrote:
> .
> When I was researching, the article in wikipedia I read
> said that many commercial systems have email clients which
> understand imap, pop3, etc. The systems likely to do this on our
> network are a windows10 box, an iMa
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 8:21 PM Martin McCormick
wrote:
>
> My thanks to all who replied and thanks for reminding me of some
> of the considerations one needs to think of when setting this all
> up since that's what I used to do as part of my job before
> retiring in 2015. As for there bein
On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 11:09:14 -0500
"Martin McCormick" wrote:
>
> Shouldn't I be able to install an imap server on the
> debian box and forward messages of interest to it, then reach
> imap4 on the private net from any system that speaks imap or has
> an imap client?
>
Yes, certainly. An
One more question I should know the answer to but am not sure of.
The debian Buster system I use for email presently uses fetchmail
to get mail from the ISP and is configured to use that ISP's
smarthost for out-going mail. I do not want to effect
(= muck this up) this functionality because it w
On 2021-10-20 19:16, Joe wrote:
On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 11:46:11 -0500
"Martin McCormick" wrote:
Also, I have put /etc/hosts files on Linux systems and a
Mac and I believe there is a hosts file one can add to Windows
systems for a similar effect.
Indeed so, it is even in a folder calle
Joe writes:
> Indeed so, it is even in a folder called 'etc', which I think is in a
> 'drivers' folder. It's a while since I used it. There may be an
> existing default or example \etc\hosts file. The LMHosts file is also
> here, but of interest only to Windows networks for speeding up share
> loo
On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 11:46:11 -0500
"Martin McCormick" wrote:
> Also, I have put /etc/hosts files on Linux systems and a
> Mac and I believe there is a hosts file one can add to Windows
> systems for a similar effect.
>
>
Indeed so, it is even in a folder called 'etc', which I think is in
On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 11:46:11 -0500
"Martin McCormick" wrote:
> Can systems on a 192.168.x VLAN use smtp to send
> mail to each other?
I know of no reason why not. However, one thing to be careful of: These
are class C networks, so the default netmask will be 255.255.255.0.
With that, you will ne
On Mi, 20 oct 21, 19:14:20, deloptes wrote:
> Martin McCormick wrote:
>
> > The installation, here, is like millions of others. We are on a
> > private VLAN with the router acting as the gateway to our ISP's
> > network and the internet. There is nothing unusual about that so
> > the question is
Martin McCormick wrote:
> The installation, here, is like millions of others. We are on a
> private VLAN with the router acting as the gateway to our ISP's
> network and the internet. There is nothing unusual about that so
> the question is Can systems on a 192.168.x VLAN use smtp to send
> mail
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