I will get straight to the point. I am trying to set up an e-mail server for a local school (free of course) and I cannot for the life of me get the linux machine to work. I am running RedHat 7.0 on a DSL connection. The comptuer's address is 192.168.1.9 and the router's address to the outside world is 209.85.185.146 which is permanent. I have registered with internic and have a domain name. What software or documentation can I read which explains what I need to do? Thanks to all who read this please -matt

Well, You need a name server. With out a name server to host your dns, then email or apache will not work. If you wanna have your own name server on same machine and then setup Bind also then go back to networksolutions and register a name server for free. It would be yourmachinename.yourdomainname.com along with your static IP. If you don't wanto go this route then you need to find a name server dns service. Other than that and as long as you machine is up on the network then the the rest is minor tuning to get stuff as POP to work. They are usually not configured by default. Let me know when you get this far I will post some of my configs. I am currently hosting 3 actual web sites with 3 different actual domains running sendmail for each domain...All on 1 static IP on same machine with my own dns too.

Thanks for getting me started on this topic. To anyone else who needs help with seting p an e-mail server with linux and a dsl account feel free to e-mail me at powerbookm@aol.com The book I used to get this project off the ground was "Setting up a linux internet server" by hidenori tsuji. It was extremely helpful with the fundamentals -matt