Mail server

[Skylar Thompson]

Abilash Praveen M wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I'm a newbie to linux. I'd been using Centos for a couple of weeks. 
> Now I've changed my box to FC4. I however do not have enough 
> experience in handling mail servers. I have setup everything except 
> the mail server. I already have my MX changed to point to this box.. 
> but I'm not sure how I would setup all emails to 
> someone at sub.thisbox.com <mailto:someone at sub.thisbox.com> come to my 
> nix box.
>  
> I have sendmail (iam not sure if sendmail is used to accept incomming 
> emails) and I created a sub.thisbox.com in the local domains list. I 
> think created an alias somone and asked it to send emails to my 
> hotmail address. So, I assumed that when I send an email to 
> someone at sub.thisbox.com <mailto:someone at sub.thisbox.com> it would go 
> to my hotmail address. But it doesn't happen to be so. I don't get a 
> undelivered message.. but it seems to have gone into the queue for 
> unknown reasons.
>
> Can I request you please to help me out setting up my email server? I 
> might need to also host my thisbox.com emails once I succeed with this 
> sub. I might probably need pop3 access too. I found that centos was 
> not very much helpful for me.. but i'm not sure if FC4 list would help 
> me cuz I might sound too newbie????
>  
> Thanks in advance to anyone who will help me out.


Unless you have a particular reason for using sendmail, I'd recommend 
using something simpler like Postfix (http://www.postfix.org). It'll 
probably do everything you need it to do anyways, and be ready to go in 
under an hour.

-- 
-- Skylar Thompson (skylar at cs.earlham.edu)
-- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/

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