From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 1 20:46: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3482914E88 for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 20:46:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: (from hamellr@localhost) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id UAA11220; Sat, 1 May 1999 20:40:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 20:40:13 -0700 (PDT) From: rick hamell To: jbernt@bigfoot.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dorm Room Server In-Reply-To: <000801be9446$2da4f700$b08ad38c@gryphon.oit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In my school's dorm, I have a connection, and with that connection I have a > specific IP. The ip gets resolved to a specific name, ie: > reshall-138-yyy.oit.edu, IP 140.211.138.yyy Room 138 eh? I was in 326 upstairs.... put our number in binary. :) Course... that was long enough ago that we ran network wire though the heater pipes and into the dorm computer lab. :) > I want to set up an email server (incoming and outgoing, pop and smtp) > I would like to know the best way to do something like this. Please let me > know if any of you have any ideas. FreeBSD would do it well. Put sendmail or procmail or whatever on there. :) People would only be able to connect to the IP number, unless they're letting you named machines, i.e. whatever.dorm.oit.edu Rick ---- "Religion exists because man can't belive that he's nothing more then a random accident." http://www.grendal.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message