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Old 07-19-2014, 04:18 AM   #1
thirstonlinux
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smtp issue


I would like to setup SMTP in such a way that it should accept mails from local and remote hosts.

I have two VMS
Number Name IP
1 server.learn.com 192.168.0.100
2 client.learn.com 192.168.0.200

both are pingable from the other side and their entry is made in /etc/hosts file on both machines.

From "server" root I am sending email to the local user "John" which I can read.

When I try to send from "client" root, I am not able to receive the same. when I check the /var/log/maillog, it says the status as deferred "Name service error for name = server.learn.com Host Not found"

This is the change I made in the configuration file
myhostname = server.learn.com
mydomain = learn.com
myorigin = $mydomain
inet_interfaces = all

commented line 164 and uncommented line 165.

Note: the postfix service has been restarted after this change.
 
Old 07-19-2014, 09:45 PM   #2
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I'm puzzled. SMTP is for sending, not receiving. Receiving is commonly POP3 or IMAP.

Could you tell us a little more about what you are trying to do and what programs you are using?

I have recently been working on setting up Mutt on one of my computers, just for the experience. I found this link to be tremendously helpful in understanding the nuts-and-bolts of what goes on under the email hood. I offer it because it may help you clarify your question.
 
Old 07-21-2014, 04:01 AM   #3
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mutt to send and receive email
 
Old 07-21-2014, 07:48 PM   #4
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I've been working with Mutt myself recently, just because I wanted to learn more about email under the hood; I also wanted to learn more about vim and I figured that using an email client that defaulted to the vim editor would be a great way to do that. It's not quite where I want it to be (I want to be able to handle multiple accounts with a single instance of Mutt and am still researching how best to do that).

This is the best tutorial I found: http://docs.huihoo.com/gentoo/resour...e-to-mutt.html
I pretty much followed the instructions verbatim, with fetchmail, formail, procmail, and msmtp, and was able to send and receive mail to my primary account.

This is the second-best tutorial I found, but not by much: http://www.calmar.ws/mutt/

I hope they help. If you get stuck, please post any error messages you receive, verbatim, if at all possible, along with the circumstances in which you received them. The more detail you provide, the easier it will be for us to help you.

Last edited by frankbell; 07-21-2014 at 07:51 PM.
 
  


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