Mail Server Assistance Needed

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 20.02.2005 schrieb Ankush Grover um 18:10:

> postfix is used for sending mails ,not for retriving mails.You need to
> setup  fetchmail for retrieving the mails from your ISP mailbox .You
> also need to setup a Pop/Imap server like Dovecot or Cyrus Imapd.If
> you want to filter the incoming mails from the ISP accounts you have
> to use procmail .

> Ankush

This is not correct.

Postfix is an MTA and thus both sends and receives mail messages. It
sends to other MTAs and gets mail by other MTAs. Fetchmail has nothing
to do with that in this regard.

The MTAs on Fedora Core (Sendmail, Postfix and Exim) are configured by
default to only listen on localhost. So they do not listen on public
interfaces / IPs and so no mail can be delivered from outside.
Too the mail from a foreign MTA must have the possibility to find it's
way to the target MTA by a valid MX record (a proper DNS setup is
essential for each MTA host; while an A record is normally sufficient it
is better to have a valid MX record set).

The original poster should start reading very basic literature and
documentation about setting up a mail server (MTA and POP3/IMAP server).
One has to understand many things up to the point such a service can be
handled properly.

Alexander


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