Re: General outline of a home mailserver setup

2002-03-21 Thread Harry Putnam
gregory mott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >You wouldn't still have the *.mc file that produced that would you? > > my machine's doing the same.. here's mine.. make appropriate > subsitiutions between the +plusses+ (i do it with sed).. > divert(-1) [...] Oh thanks Gregory, I just now saw th

Re: General outline of a home mailserver setup

2002-03-18 Thread gregory mott
> >You wouldn't still have the *.mc file that produced that would you? my machine's doing the same.. here's mine.. make appropriate subsitiutions between the +plusses+ (i do it with sed).. divert(-1) dnl /etc/mail/sendmail.mc is read by /etc/cook, which writes /etc/sendmail.cf include(`/usr/sh

Re: General outline of a home mailserver setup

2002-03-16 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: >You wouldn't still have the *.mc file that produced that would you? No, I'm afraid I don't, I'm sorry. Once I switched to qmail, I purged all that ugliness from my life, saving only the useful snippets for future use. I do rec

Re: General outline of a home mailserver setup

2002-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Attempting to send mail from machine 192.168.0.7 with mail client > aimed at the above machine with the edited sendmail.cf, for smtp server. > > Gives me this error on the (Win 98) client: > Error reported by server 550 5.7.1 > Relayi

Re: General outline of a home mailserver setup

2002-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
David Talkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: > >>In my setup I have a static IP address but I relay my outgoing mail >>thru my isps smtp machine. I do this by giving that host name as >>answer to Smart relay host: in Sendmail.cf >> >>Now I'll still be doing that but other f

Re: General outline of a home mailserver setup (kinda long)

2002-03-16 Thread Stephen L Arnold
On 16 Mar 02, at 11:16, Harry Putnam wrote: > Now what about the harder part of getting sendmail to be the outgoing smtp > host? > > In my setup I have a static IP address but I relay my outgoing mail > thru my isps smtp machine. I do this by giving that host name as > answer to Smart relay hos

Re: General outline of a home mailserver setup

2002-03-16 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: >In my setup I have a static IP address but I relay my outgoing mail >thru my isps smtp machine. I do this by giving that host name as >answer to Smart relay host: in Sendmail.cf > >Now I'll still be doing that but other feeder m

Re: General outline of a home mailserver setup

2002-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
"Ed Wilts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I am thinking of using ipopd instead of imapd. But ipopd and imapd is > started >> from xinetd in my system (default RH 7.2). If that's the case for you too, >> would not just adding the some line in hosts.allow and hosts.deny solve > this >> problem? Is

Re: General outline of a home mailserver setup

2002-03-16 Thread Ed Wilts
> I am thinking of using ipopd instead of imapd. But ipopd and imapd is started > from xinetd in my system (default RH 7.2). If that's the case for you too, > would not just adding the some line in hosts.allow and hosts.deny solve this > problem? Is it almost the same case with other services as t

Re: General outline of a home mailserver setup

2002-03-16 Thread Reuben D Budiardja
On Friday 15 March 2002 05:40 pm, you wrote: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 02:23:37PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Did you make and adjustments to disallow any traffic from the internet > > on 143? (Or I guess 110 in your case) I wondered how to make it so > > only 192.XXX.XXX is allowed to connect

Re: General outline of a home mailserver setup

2002-03-15 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Harry Putnam wrote: >So, with imapd running and accounts with mail in them in >/var/spool/mail/$USER. A network computer with a setting of popserver >aimed at the linux box would press send/recieve or something and her >software

Re: General outline of a home mailserver setup

2002-03-15 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Harry Putnam wrote: >Show none of this to the internet. Use ipchains to disallow incoming connection attempts (TCP SYN packets) from outside your subnet: mylan='192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0' ipchains --append input --protocol tcp

Re: General outline of a home mailserver setup

2002-03-15 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 02:23:37PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Did you make and adjustments to disallow any traffic from the internet > on 143? (Or I guess 110 in your case) I wondered how to make it so > only 192.XXX.XXX is allowed to connect to it. Or even so that it > isn't even seen from

Re: General outline of a home mailserver setup

2002-03-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > All the tools are provided by Red Hat out of the box. What I do is to first > create each user on my Linux system that I want to provide mail for (all 2 > of us :-)). In that user account, create a .fetchmailrc that goes and gets > the mail. Here'

Re: General outline of a home mailserver setup

2002-03-15 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: > >[NOTE: Somehow this reply got attached to a different message on >redhat-list: Subject: Re: Slow POP3 / SMTP / FTP connection from >internal windoze Not sure what caused it, probably some bumbling of >mine, but it was supposed

Re: General outline of a home mailserver setup

2002-03-15 Thread Harry Putnam
[NOTE: Somehow this reply got attached to a different message on redhat-list: Subject: Re: Slow POP3 / SMTP / FTP connection from internal windoze Not sure what caused it, probably some bumbling of mine, but it was supposed to be a reply to David. So here it is] David Talkington <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: General outline of a home mailserver setup

2002-03-15 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anthony E. Greene wrote: >On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Harry Putnam wrote: >>Instead of having each machine retreive its mail from the internet, I >>want to have one machine do all retreival and the others to be aimed >>at it as there pop server. > >They sho

Re: General outline of a home mailserver setup

2002-03-15 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Harry Putnam wrote: >Instead of having each machine retreive its mail from the internet, I >want to have one machine do all retreival and the others to be aimed >at it as there pop server. They should probably use it as their out

Re: General outline of a home mailserver setup

2002-03-15 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:34:11AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > Setup: RH 7.1 >Single user home machine >DSL connected >Mail retrieval thru fetchmail from POP3 >2 other houshold machines running one or another MS platform. > >All are setup behind a hardw

Re: General outline of a home mailserver setup

2002-03-15 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: >Instead of having each machine retreive its mail from the internet, I >want to have one machine do all retreival and the others to be aimed >at it as there pop server. Sure, you're already on the right track ... you just need fo