SendMail Deployment Exercise

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I am carefully working through Costales and Allman's superb book 'sendmail', published by Oreilly, 2nd Edition. I am up to about page 140. So far, the book has covered the creation of a sendmail.cf file that forwards all mail to a Central Mail Hub, whether local or remote. Since I do not have a Central Mail Hub, it is somewhat difficult to test out all my experiments with the sendmail.cf . Luckily I seem to have acquired a number of PCs that could happily run Linux. I have also configured a DNS, using BIND and NAMED. <br>
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Does anyone have any suggestions on what would be a good way to set up a test Central Mail Hub for my little Internet? I am thinking that I would like to actually create my own Mail Hub but again I am not sure if this would be helpful. <br>
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Thank you for your advice and time.<br>
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Simon Brown

 

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What do want to test? Your local sendmail configuration or a central mail hub?<br>
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The first you can do locally (in debug mode), for the second you can choose one of the machines as your central mail hub and tell him that he shall deliver all mails to a local user (as a trashcan).<br>
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Hope this helps