Re: Sendmail

[Stephen Kuhn <skuhn telpacific com au>]

On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 10:55, Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
> I would like to use my Redhat system to its fullest.  I would like to
> set up a mailserver using sendmail.  I'm kinda fuzzy on this picture and
> need some help.  I think I have sendmail configured properly but what do
> I use to receive incoming mail from my ISP? (Currently my mail client
> just goes directly to my ISP's mail server.)  Is that where fetchmail
> comes in?  I would like to point my mail client to my mailserver
> instead.
> 
> I also want to bypass my ISP all together when I send mail.  What do I
> use to do that?  Is that sendmail's function?
> 
> The reason for doing this is I hope to move my website to my home system
> and have to have a mailserver.  I'm just trying to save some money I'm
> give the hosting company.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Palmetto Shopper 
> http://www.palmettoshopper.com
> Serving all of South Carolina and beyond!

You can use FETCHMAIL to grab it, PROCMAIL to process it for nasties and
spam and the likes, and then SENDMAIL will dole it out. Sending? Use the
SENDMAIL feature in almost every linux based email package. You'll be
right.

> 
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