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Date:      Wed, 27 Jan 1999 08:21:59 -0600
From:      Guy Helmer <ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov>
To:        Brian Armour <zzredlib@mailbox.uq.edu.au>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Email & FreeBSD Proxy Server
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.4.05.9901270810100.6450-100000@demios.scl.ameslab.gov>
In-Reply-To: <36AED3A3.31E92E06@mailbox.uq.edu.au>

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On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Brian Armour wrote:

> At Redlands College, we have a FreeBSD Proxy Server and Novell 4.11
> network server. We want to use Pegasus within the college as our mail
> reader and composer.  Pegasus is already set up to handle internal
> mail for our staff, using their Netware login names and associated
> home directories.
> 
> What we want to do now is enable our staff to send and receive email
> to/from the outside world.
> 
> Can you please point me in the direction of a guide that shows me how
> to use FreeBSD to do this?

I don't know of a guide that would lead you through this step by step, but
essentially you would need to do these steps (and it's been years since
I've done this, so please forgive my faulty memory):

Install the Mercury NLM on your Novell server (see
http://www.pegasus.usa.com/ and click on the Mercury release link) by
following the installation instructions that are included with it.  In
Mercury's configuration file, tell it to use your FreeBSD proxy server for
outgoing mail.

Setup an MX record in your DNS for your Novell server that runs the
Mercury NLM to point at your FreeBSD proxy server, e.g.

    novell.mycollege.edu IN MX 10 freebsdserver.mycollege.edu

Modify the sendmail configuration on your FreeBSD proxy server to forward
all mail for the Novell server to it directly, e.g. in /etc/mailertable:

novell.mycollege.edu smtp:[10.1.1.1]

where 10.1.1.1 is the IP address of the Novell server that is running
Mercury.  (You would also need to "makemap hash /etc/mailertable.db <
/etc/mailertable" to turn the mailertable into a .db file for sendmail.)

Hope this helps,
Guy Helmer

Guy Helmer, Graduate Student, Iowa State University Dept. of Computer Science 
Research Assistant, Ames Laboratory       ---         ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov
Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science   ---   ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer


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