Anyone know any software for this?

rverlander · 07-24-2002, 05:37 AM

Mail Server.
One I can use in a MX record of a domain name

Thanks

JamesF1 · 07-24-2002, 06:47 AM

????Mail server? - try qmail or sendmail. All the mx record does in a dns zone file is point to a host(fully qualified name) with a server to accept incoming mail connections.

Can you be more specific?

rverlander · 07-24-2002, 06:52 AM

All I want to do is be able receive e-mail from @mydomainisnoneofyourbusinessok.com addresses

acid_kewpie · 07-24-2002, 06:57 AM

well.. that's just an smtp server... install one...

JamesF1 · 07-24-2002, 07:00 AM

Okay then sendmail or qmail should do the trick. There's tons of info on both of them. I'm told that qmail is the more secure of these two and easier to configure but I'm having some problems to configure it myself so I can't give you much more info about it. You can download it at www.qmail.org. Just make sure you have a working dns for qmail

Hope it helps.

rverlander · 07-24-2002, 07:19 AM

Running top says:

Quote:

2:18am up 15 days, 12:39, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
37 processes: 36 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.3% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 98.8% idle
Mem: 62112K av, 41528K used, 20584K free, 0K shrd, 2584K buff
Swap: 195512K av, 1592K used, 193920K free 29868K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
25677 root 16 0 1012 1012 824 R 1.1 1.6 0:00 top
1 root 15 0 260 216 196 S 0.0 0.3 0:06 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:01 ksoftirqd_CPU0
4 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:34 kswapd
5 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush
6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated
7 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 mdrecoveryd
11 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:56 kjournald
132 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
133 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 2:16 kjournald
477 root 15 0 340 300 264 S 0.0 0.4 0:07 syslogd
482 root 15 0 236 180 180 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 klogd
591 root 15 0 812 408 320 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 sendmail
645 root 15 0 288 248 208 S 0.0 0.3 0:01 crond
678 root 16 0 196 144 144 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 mingetty
679 root 16 0 196 144 144 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 mingetty
680 root 16 0 196 144 144 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 mingetty
681 root 16 0 196 144 144 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 mingetty

How do I config sendmail???
And how would I check e-mail???

acid_kewpie · 07-24-2002, 07:24 AM

you read the documentation that comes with it.
and you would use an email client.

rverlander · 07-24-2002, 07:32 AM

i know about e-mail client

acid_kewpie · 07-24-2002, 07:49 AM

good well that's that all sorted then...

JamesF1 · 07-24-2002, 09:12 AM

Try www.sendmail.org They should have a basic configuration walk-through to help set it up. Or if you want to do it the lazy way you could try using webmin (www.webmin.com). All you need for it is a web-browser. But perhaps for actual learning experience it's better you do it by hand.

rverlander · 07-25-2002, 01:44 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by JamesF1
Try www.sendmail.org They should have a basic configuration walk-through to help set it up. Or if you want to do it the lazy way you could try using webmin (www.webmin.com). All you need for it is a web-browser. But perhaps for actual learning experience it's better you do it by hand.

Oh doh! I loaded webmin and forgot my password, looks like a webmin re-install