Internal Mail Server

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Hello people,
I want to create a local mail server with a Sun Qube3 with sendmail to serve mails to internal people and relay its if destination is not in our lan.
Anybody can give me ideas, procedures, links of information ?
Thank you,
Best regards

 

[RhythmAce]

If the recipient is local, sendmail will hand e-mail off to procmail for local delivery. The path may be different for your system but on most linux systems the mail is stored in /var/spool/mail/username. Where user is the name of a user on your system. This file is the "mailbox" for the user and holds all his/her e-mail. To get their mail, you need a pop3 mail server installed. Qpopper is a very good one. Then the user sets up their e-mail client just as they would for their isp mail accounts. They would just use mail.yourdomain.com as the POP and SMTP mail servers. To use sendmail in this way, you need to set up a DNS "A" record pointing mail.yourdomain.com to your mail server's IP. Then setup an "MX" record stating mail.yourdomain.com is the mail server for yourdomain.com. You will need to tell sendmail how to handle the mail for both incoming and outgoing e-mail. Sendmail uses config files and data bases to do this. You can get most of the info for setting up a mail server from

http://www.sendmail.org

. If you need more specific help with setting up sendmail, let us know.