RE: [PLUG] email how-to..

[William Shank <wshank@mbcnet.com>]

ssshwwwooooshhh!!!! that the sound of your response flying over my head:)

so i guess i need to learn sendmail? isn't notoriously difficult to
configure? what are the alternatives? 



-----Original Message-----
From: epike@isinet.com
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Sent: 10/23/01 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] email how-to..

Here's one...

Since I'm on cable and my laptop is behind my Linux 
firewall/gateway/ I've set up my linux box as my
outgoing mail.  The advantage is (1) outgoing
mail is faster since my laptop just drops the
mail on the server and the server spools it on its 
own (2) no cap on outgoing email size.  So If I
send a 5megs MP3 attachment, my laptop just drops
it to the linux box and the linux box might spool
and deliver it for a couple of minutes or hours
on its own.

So I've set up my laptop such that incoming mail (POP server)
would still be my ISP (@home.com) and outgoing mail
(SMTP) would be my linux box.

To pull this off, sendmail should be able to relay
but only from select machines ..(that would be
the file /etc/mail/access).  I can't remember right
now what needs to be done in /etc/sendmail.cf or
/etc/sendmail.mc though.

e pike /JondZ





> 
> i am email challenged and need a good primer on how email works, how
to
> configure an email client (ie: balsa,KMail, etc) for on a
LAN/Internet. can
> anyone point me to some books, magazines, how-to's, or short-stories
on the
> basics of email and how it all works. 4th grade reading level
preferred:)
> 
> thanks all 
> 
> -chris 
> 
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