Dear Members,

We are working on Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 (i686) (RHL 7.2) , we want to make mail server for local intranet level.

Which combinations are suitable for it ? Pl. suggest and give links to download those files.

Regards
Vipul Patel
Ahmedabad

i'm lost... do you think that rhaas2.1 is at all related to rh7.2? they are about 3 years apart from each other and have very little in common. either way, sendmail and postfix are presumably both included in rhas 2.1 and would do fine for smtp. you may wish to clarify exactly what a "mail" server is to you... there is no such thing really...

Dear Charis,

We are currently using combination of sendmail+dovcot. But problems is that smtp port for local ip address eg.202.202.202.253 not found , it has seen in local host 127.0.0.1 . So without smtp port how can we send mails?

We want to use if for intranet level. In this regarding we have disable all fire walls but no smtp port seen on local ip address.

We have searched in this fourm and on google for smtp problems, most of people suggest postfix instead of sendmail because sendmail confguration is complicated and creates lot of problems.

We could not found proper rpm of postfix for rhas2.1? Do you have a link from where we can download it otherwise give advise how to clear SMTP problem?

Pl. give any idea. We have stuck at this point.

Thanks in advance....

Bye
Vipul Patel

if you wish to use sendmail to allow other machines to send mail to it, edit your sendmail.mc file and there's be a line talking about the daemon listening on 127.0.0.1 only. put "dnl " at the start of the line and restart sendmail, it'll then listen on all available interfaces.

Dear Sir,

Now We have sending emails properly but not receiving it. We are using sendmail+dovecot combination. We have not using DNS but on IP address we have working.

We have created two names with same IP address in mail settings.

Both 25 - smtp and 110- pop3 are listening properly.
telnet 202.202.202.53 25 - work ok
telnet 202.202.202.53 110 - work ok.

but when receiving incoming mail no errors shown in /var/log/maillog or var/mail/messages. But in INBOX no mail received. What happend I don't know?

Is there any changes are required in sendmail.mc or dovecot.conf . Pl. reply as soon as possible.

Regards
Vipul Patel.

that would suggest to me that there is no data hitting the server from the internet. are your mx records ok? you might want to run somethgin as low level as tcpdump on the box to confirm you are getting inbound traffic at all.