sendmail @home w/small network 3

[rouse01]

I have a small network in my house & use ol97 e-mail clients on the winboxes and a Linux box providing samba & dhcp services behind a firewall. The clients use my isp's incoming & outgoing servers directly to fetch & retrieve mail. I would rather like to run sendmail on the linux box so I can use the anti spam filters, as well as experiment with this cool mail-server.
Is this possible to do with a provider such as @home?

Thanks is advance for any enlightenment!

 

[marsd]

You will need a domain name for what you want to do.
Either run a nameserver or have your isp do nameservice
for you.(right...)

good luck.

 

[RhythmAce]

Hi rouse01,
Yes you can run a mail server with @home but I wouldn't ask them for help. They frown on anybody using their bandwidth for servers. Marsd was right. First you have to register your own domain name. Then get a DNS pointer service like

http://www.zoneedit.com

to point to your IP address. The reason I use a pointer service is so I can make changes to my A or MX record and the changes take effect immediately. I don't have to wait 48 to 72 hours for things to happen. If my mail server goes down, I can point it to another server within minutes or have a backup server listed. If you just want to play around you can use it for just local mail but nobody out side your network will be able to find you.

Have fun.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

For inbound mail - yes as per above posts you would need your own domain, a static ip address and to get the mailexchanger (MX) record for the domain to point at that IP address. You would also need to run a pop3 or imap server on your linux box because sendmail is just a smtp server.

For outbound mail, you can use sendmail if you like - just set the outbound ip address to localhost (or the lan ip addr of your box). However, you may well need to set-up sendmail to masquerade as your isp's smtp server because of anti-spam measures in place that are designed to stop relaying of mail. Have a look at this -->

http://mail-abuse.org/dul/enduser.htm

. The following shows you how to configure sendmail to get round this problem -->

http://mail-abuse.org/dul/gateways.htm#sendmail

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Rgds