Re: mail under your control

Rich-

Thanks for the info (and the local test case -- that will come in 
handy).  I'll let you know how things go.  I'm sure I'll have more 
questions later, so it's a good thing the group is here.

As for the sendmail FAQ, I managed to slog my way through the entire 
O'Reilly sendmail book (2nd Edition Bat book), so the FAQ should be no 
problem. *g*

-JEV

At 09:39 PM 7/17/00 -0400, Rich Bowen wrote:
>This is sort of what I had to go through here at home, so I'll be able
>to help you some in this process. There are several things that you'll
>need to do. You'll need to install Sendmail. It's likely that it is
>already installed, if you did a normal Linux installation. You'll need
>to make sure that it is one of the services that starts automatically on
>boot.
>
>You'll need to tell Sendmail that it's OK to deliver mail for that
>domain to your machine. This is done by putting your domain in a few
>files. To be completely honest, I'm not sure which file it needs to go
>in. It's one (or more) of /etc/mail/relay-domains or
>/etc/mail/relay_allow/ Put it in both for good measure.
>
>The next step is to make sure that all the accounts that you want to
>receive mail are created on the machine. And if there are any other
>aliases that you want (john(at)whatever.com, for example) set up these
>aliases in /etc/aliases.  Run newaliases when you are done editing
>/etc/aliases
>
>Once things seem to be set up on your end, contact the folks that handle
>your domain's DNS. Tell them that you want the MX for your domain
>pointed to your home machine (give them the IP address, of course). Tell
>them that you want them to still be a secondard MX for you. That way,
>when your machine is down (or offline) you'll still get the mail
>eventually.
>
>That should be about all. You should now be able to send and receive
>mail through your machine.
>
>As for the firewall stuff, you'll need to make sure that inbound
>connections to port 25 are permitted. Having just your domain listed in
>the relay-* files ensures that you are not just an open relay for anyone
>in the world to send mail through, so this should not be a problem.
>
>And, if I missed something (I probably did), you'll want to read the
>Sendmail FAQ. It's not very well written, but I had to struggle through
>it to get things working, so everyone else should have to suffer through
>it also.
>
>Let me know if you run into any problems.
>
>Oh, if you want to test things before you have your ISP switch your MX,
>and you start losing mail, set up your internal DNS to think that your
>local machine is the MX for your domain. That way, you can at least test
>internal mail.

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