Alright, I wouldn't consider myself a complete noob with linux and servers, but my approach to things is to google them as I don't know what to do. Unfortunately, that's not helping me at the moment.

I don't know if any of you are familiar with the windows smtp server postcast. I'm looking for a solution like that on fedora 5. See, thing I don't get is that with postcast, I can telnet it, and then just give a from address, a to address and then message and subject and I'm good to go. What I don't want to do is have mail stored on the server for pickup later. Does anybody get what I mean?


Thanks in advance,

-Ivan

Not really no... You describe how to send email via telnet, but then you say you don't want to store emails on a server... I don't get how the two are connected.

Assuming you just want to forward emails going to a local user on your linux box to a remote email address you should look at the aliases file in you /etc dir. assuming emails are going to root, you'd add something like:
root: myother@remote.email.address
and run "newaliases" to update the hash file.

This is assuming sendmail came with your distro... postfix is similar, except your run 'postalias aliases' to update the hash file.

Actually as an example, I want a server to do the same thing as for example, mail.hotmail.com would. It wouldn't hold the mail, but send it wherever you want.

I'll check out what you put in your last post.

All SMTP servers both accept incoming mail AND deliver outgoing mail. Google any old SMTP tutorial for sending via telent. Also check ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc821.txt for the definitve reference.

Thanks for the reply. Now that I get what I'm talking about, here's another question. Since this server would be accpeting mails from whoever gets this program I'm making, it would have to accept email from ALL Ips. Should I use smtp with auth for this? Otherwise, I judge I would have a major problem with random people (and spammers) using the server. . .