Re: Mail HowTo

["L. C. Robinson" <lcr@onewest.net>]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, John J. Boyer wrote:

> If I get hold of such a HowTo I'll post the URL to the list,
> unless, of course, someone on the list actually provides it.

All of the most current HOWTOs should be at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/, or at the beginning of the HOWTOs,
there should be a pointer to where the most current one is.
Most distributions install a set of them in /usr/doc/HOWTO, or
more currently, /usr/share/doc/HOWTO, on your local hard drive.

See below for specific info...

> > -----Original Message-----
> > [mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of John J. Boyer
> >
> > ...
> > I've been reading the manuals for Fetchmail and Pine, but I can't quite

The other posters have explained about fetchmail and pine, so I skip that.

> > figure out where to put the various information for setting up an e-mail
> > account. So I'm wondering if there is a howto that explains step by step
> > what to do to set upo an e-mail account in RedHat.

I recently posted detailed directions for RedHat systems running
sendmail.  You can find it in the blinux archives under the
subject heading: "Re: sendmail problem"
There is an attachment called sendmail-masq-add.mc and that name
also appears in the body of the message (good search string).

> > My current e-mail address, director@chpi.org is provided by
> > our Webhosting service. We also have DSL from a different
> > company. To set up this account on Linux, i will have to
> > specify the webhosting company's server for incoming mail,
> > the DSL company's server for outgoing mail,

So the DSL company would probably be known to "sendmail" as your
gateway:

dnl "dnl" starts a comment
dnl Add this if your ISP requires you to use an outgoing mail gateway:
dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `your_DSL_companys_gateway_mail_server.net')
dnl Example:
define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.DSLprovider.net')

> > the account name assigned to be by the Webhosting company, my
> > e-mail name, "director", and of course my password with the
> > ...

So you may want to have your mail appear to come from that
address, or in other words, be masqueraded:

dnl MASQUERADE_AS(your_ISP.net)
dnl This is the machine you would pop your mail from (probably using fetchmail).
dnl Example:
MASQUERADE_AS(onewest.net)

Sendmail also has some schemes for aliasing.  Everyone should
have, for instance, root aliased to their normal user account, in
/etc/aliases (run "newaliases" after making any changes, to
update the hashed database), so that system reports come to them.
Never read mail as root.

LCR

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