Setting up a Mail Server - Help Needed.
Hello Kittyhawk
|> which will need to send approx 80% internal and 20% external mail.
|>
|> At the moment my mail (ALL OF IT) goes out to my ISP and then back into the
|> company to which ever colleague I am e-mailing. I am aware that this is a
|> very long winded way of doing things and would like to find out how to
|> simplify mail being sent within the company.
|
|The solution is fairly simple. You need an smtp mail server which
|is able to distinguish between local and remote domains. Mail
|addressed to any domains which are configured to be local to the
|server will be sent, regardless of origin (local or remote) to
|pop3 mailboxes (or gated to disk) for your Outlook clients on the
|network to collect. Mail addressed to any other domains is queued
|in an outbox until you go online. You can then deliver this mail
|direct to your isp's smart host or via mx lookups, depending how
|your outbound mail routes are configured.
smail-3 would be ideal for this -
ftp://ftp.planix.com/pub/Smail/
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J C Lawrence
: |> At the moment my mail (ALL OF IT) goes out to my ISP and then back into the
: |> company to which ever colleague I am e-mailing. I am aware that this is a
: |> very long winded way of doing things and would like to find out how to
: |> simplify mail being sent within the company.
: |The solution is fairly simple. You need an smtp mail server which
: |is able to distinguish between local and remote domains. Mail
: |addressed to any domains which are configured to be local to the
: |server will be sent, regardless of origin (local or remote) to
: |pop3 mailboxes (or gated to disk) for your Outlook clients on the
: |network to collect. Mail addressed to any other domains is queued
: |in an outbox until you go online. You can then deliver this mail
: |direct to your isp's smart host or via mx lookups, depending how
: |your outbound mail routes are configured.
: smail-3 would be ideal for this -
: ftp://ftp.planix.com/pub/Smail/
There's a new version out too if I recall right, no? I tend to refer
Exim (http://ww.exim.org/) or Vmailer, but that's largely a matter of
personal rather than technical preference. (Tho smail is definitely
the candidate of choice if you're going to do an UUCP work).
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Miguel Cruz
> I tend to refer ... Vmailer
Why would you refer people to a program that's not even available?
miguel
J C Lawrence
Please be a little more careful with your quoting. The actual
object of that sentence was Exim. That said, truth to tell I was
not aware of the release status of VMailer. We have (and are
testing/working with) a copy here at SGI, so I assumed that it was
available at some level.
My bad.
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Miguel Cruz
J C Lawrence <cl...@under.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
>>> I tend to refer ... Vmailer
>
>> Why would you refer people to a program that's not even available?
>
> Please be a little more careful with your quoting. The actual
> object of that sentence was Exim.
You're being as shifty as I was! The sentence read "I rend to refer exim or
vmailer". Both were equals in objectaciousness. I left out exim because it
confused the issue.
miguel