From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 15 00:43:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA06125 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 00:43:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [204.97.248.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA06120 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 00:43:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-10.ime.net [206.231.149.19]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id DAA20072 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 03:43:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <31C269BB.F79@ime.net> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 03:43:55 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: sendmail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm trying to figure out how to setup my FreeBSD 2.1r box as a mail server for my lan! (Amoungest other things :) Is sendmail the proper tool for this! I've read the man page and Nemeth but I can't seem to make it work! At least from Winbloze stations. Only os I have to send tests from! I really can't elaborate with error messages as Winbloze is to stupid to give details! It just tells me: Cannot connect to xxx, make sure your account info is accurate. On the FBSD box: ``user@localhost`` works. ``user@host.domain`` works ``user@domain`` doesn't work. Produces errors in maillog that say something about routes back to myself. Yet I can ftp, telnet, http to domain and it works! ie: http://domain http://www http://www.domain I don't know if that means if anything, Just though I'd throw it out there! sendmail is right out of the box! except for one minor change: /etc/sysconfig sendmail_flags="-bd" versus sendmail_flags="-bd -q30m" I do have a HD on the shelf that has FBSD 2.0r on it and could stuff it in a system for testing if need be! I really don't want to go through this to test! Just praying that some kind soul will assist.. :) I hope to be able to get FBSD to automajically send/retrive my mail from my ISP. Yet be able to send/read from any workstation on the lan. In a store and forward sort of way I guess. I also plan on using the FBSD box as a gateway (I think gateway is what I want??) to also allow any of my workstations access to the internet via FBSD ppp connection! For web crawling, etc... etc... My ISP passes out dynamic IP's. I don't have a valid IP or domainename! user ppp is installed and working. (No protection yet, So I don't leave home :) Anybody interested in pointing out the path I should take to accomplish the above goals? I would surly appreciate the help. Thanks Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848