Sending and receiving mail in linux

[drumil narayan]

thanx Kostas,

As was not feeling well since week, couldn't reply to
you. Now I will try out this and update you.

thanx once again..Drumil
--- Kostas Sfakiotakis <kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr>
wrote:

> Greetings drumil,
> 
> 
> > 
> > Thanx Kostas,
> > 
> > I want to configure for a network and yes its
> static
> > IP
> 
> Since you have a static IP i assume you have also a
> domain name
> for example mydomain.com
> You have to ask the person who is responsible for
> you DNS to
> update the Resource Record of your domain in order
> for it to
> have an MX Record , so ppl outside your local
> network ( even your
> home computer ) will now if they want to send an
> email to mydomain.com
> who they have to contact .
> 
> Let's assume that you are using sendmail  and the
> following graph
>                 Internet
>                     |
> A ----------> B < -------- D
>                     ^                |
>                     |
> C ------------  ----------> E
> 
> 
> Now in the above graph A, C , D , E  is your LAN
> B is the computer that is going to sent email to
> the Internet .
> 
> Now , you have to do the following
> For the computers A,C,D,E
> go to the file  /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
> there you will find a line saying
> 
> define SMARTHOST('The Address of B goes here ' )dnl;
> 
> Then after changing the above line you will have to
> rebuild
> sendmail.cf in order to reflect the change you made
> and restart
> sendmail .
> 
> The above line means that they have to sent the
> email to
> computer B if it is to be sent to the Internet  .
> 
> After that you will have to go to computer B .
> Go to the directory  /etc/mail
> 
> Find the file access
> 
> In this file you have to put a line which will say
> 
>  From : *.mydomain.com   OK
> 
> Again for the computer B
> 
> In the /etc/mail directory you will have to find the
> 
> sendmail.mc  file and open it
> in there you will have to add or uncomment the line
> which says :
> 
> FEATURE('access_db')
> 
> after you change the sendmail.mc file you will have
> to rebuild it
> and restart sendmail .
> 
> 
> 
> Kind Regards,
>      Kostas
> 
> 
> 
> > thanx in advance..Drumil
> > 
> > 
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> >
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