email server on my box

Network Newbie here,
I set up a RH8 box at work, this is the ONLY *nix in this M$ shop
and plugged it into the M$ LAN
I also set up SAMBA.

Can I enable SMTP server on this Linux box ?

Thanks

yes, have a look for your init scripts to enable sendmail (if its already
installed, if not, have a look on the installation cd)

in slackware its /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail (you have to

#make the sendmail script executable to it runs on startup
chmod a+x /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail
#start sendmail so you dont have to reset your comp
/etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail start

)

but it'll be different in red hat

"Robert" <rchin@spammenot_panix.com> wrote in message
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>
> Network Newbie here,
> I set up a RH8 box at work, this is the ONLY *nix in this M$ shop
> and plugged it into the M$ LAN
> I also set up SAMBA.
>
> Can I enable SMTP server on this Linux box ?
>


chkconfig sendmail on
service sendmail start

I also suggest you read the Sendmail documentation with regard security and
relays.

JP

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Those that understand binary and those that don't

"Robert" <rchin@spammenot_panix.com> wrote in message
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> I set up a RH8 box at work

Same as my box.

> this is the ONLY *nix in this M$ shop

....So far ;-)

> Can I enable SMTP server on this Linux box ?

Yes. In fact, it's probably already running - but probably only
accepting mail from localhost (that's the default setup).

I strongly recommend sticking Webmin on the box before you play about
with sendmail too much - it makes life much, much simpler...

Vic.


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Robert wrote:
> Network Newbie here,
> I set up a RH8 box at work, this is the ONLY *nix in this M$ shop
> and plugged it into the M$ LAN
> I also set up SAMBA.
>
> Can I enable SMTP server on this Linux box ?
>
> Thanks

Just use Postfix. it's much easier to get going than sendmail. also u
can use imapd to set up SMTP.

SD.

yes, sendmail should be up and running automatically .... be sure to
enable to access list which would connect other than localhost ...

configure SMTP accesslist as documented on
http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html

and you should see the documentation on mail relay ..

# by default we allow relaying from localhost...
localhost.localdomain RELAY
localhost RELAY
127.0.0.1 RELAY

hth

raqueeb hassan
congo

"JP" <ft00mch@h.o.t.m.a.i.l.c.o.m> wrote in message
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> "Robert" <rchin@spammenot_panix.com> wrote in message
> news:pan.2004.05.21.13.48.18.103779@spammenot_pani x.com...
> >
> > Network Newbie here,
> > I set up a RH8 box at work, this is the ONLY *nix in this M$ shop
> > and plugged it into the M$ LAN
> > I also set up SAMBA.
> >
> > Can I enable SMTP server on this Linux box ?
> >
>
>
> chkconfig sendmail on
> service sendmail start
>
> I also suggest you read the Sendmail documentation with regard security
and
> relays.
>
> JP
>
> --
> There are 10 types of people in this world
> Those that understand binary and those that don't
>

OR, postfix

man alternatives will help you set it as your default mta

Then

postconf -e "myorigin = <your domain>"
postconf -e "mydestination = < domains you repond to space delimited>
postconf -e "mynetworks = 127.0.0.1 <your local LAN>"
postfonf -e "inet_interface = all"

service postfix restart

and voila.