Re: Configuring a mail server...

["Anthony Abby" <anthonyabby aplusdata com>]

Calber Chainy said:
> Hello list,
>
> As the subject says I'm configuring a mail server.
>
> The objectives of the mail server is to give accounts to anyone in the
> internet, i followed some howtos but I don't know how to configure some
> things.  I searched but didn't find some comprehensive howto or
> documentation...
>
> The two main problems are:
>
> I have to relay mail for anyone in the internet, not only for my local
> network, what am I supposed to type then in /etc/mail/access?
>
> Also I want to protect the outgoing mail putting a password filter on
> smtp, but dont know how to do it...
>
> The POP server and configuration is ok, but the name of the pop and smtp
> servers are www.domain.com, how can i change that to pop.domain.com and
> smtp.domain.com???
>
> Thanks a lot for any help
>

I guess you're using Sendmail?  If so that's probably not the best choice
for someone setting up their first mail server.  I'd suggest Postfix
(http://www.postfix.org) instead.  If you venture there, look through the
documentation section.. complete and excellent documentation.

For smtp relaying filtering you might want to look at pop-before-smtp.

HTH
Anthony