newbie email server questions
Hello all, I am a newbie college student looking to do a quick project to teach myself more about the workings of email servers.
What i want to do is setup 1 linux computer on my home network to run postfix and run ipop3, and then i want to send local email to different users on that same machine. can i do this without having a domain name? maybe i'm confusing myself because all the examples i've read on setting up your own email server they all want me to setup a domain name. basically i want to have a second computer use a mail client like thunderbird send mail through computer #1's postfix service, and then i want to retrieve that email in the same fashion using ipop3 service. i suppose this is also more of a demonstration to see if this will work. can anyone shed more light on if i'm on the right track? and if i'm missing anything else? |
If it's all internal, you can setup and use whatever domain name you wanted really. Shouldn't be a problem whatsoever.
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that's sort of complex.
your machine has a 'domain name' --- a fake one. sort-of. a domain name that we all know and love is www.whatever.com or something like that. but your linux box can also have a domain name that does not have to be registered or real or anything. it is kind of like a 'workgroup' in windows. when you set up your box, it'll ask you what domain the machine is in, so give it some name like home.net --- so YOURNAME@home.net email will get bounced to your home lan box. problem is, you have to setup a DNS entry on your local machines that tells them all to use 'home.net' as your local IP address rather than the real home.net. |
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