Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 16:27:15 -0700 From: Tim Baird <tim@storm.digital-rain.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail users Message-ID: <3.0.2.32.19990413162715.006cf8d8@storm.digital-rain.com> In-Reply-To: <19990413175820.D25045@rknebel.uplink.net> References: <3.0.2.32.19990413144453.006cee58@storm.digital-rain.com> <19990413171504.B25045@rknebel.uplink.net> <3.0.2.32.19990413144453.006cee58@storm.digital-rain.com>
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At 05:58 PM 4/13/99 -0400, you wrote: >On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:44:53PM -0700, Tim Baird wrote: >> At 05:15 PM 4/13/99 -0400, you wrote: >> >Hi, >> >I do not know exactly how to ask this so I will try to explain what I want >> >to do. >> > >> >I have a small home network set up with my freebsd box as a server. >> >I have my kids mac and my wife's win 98 box wired to it and they acces the >> >internet through it. >> > >> >I have a static email address and would like to give them all a mailbox on >> >my machine where there email would come to. >> > >> >> Just a few Qs.... >> >> Do you have a DNS MX record pointing to your FBSD system for your domain? >> Is sendmail configured on your box to accept mail for this domain? >> Is your box on-line 24/7 ..if not, it is essential to have a cross mailer. > >I honestly do not know what DNS MX is? >If I send an email to rknebel@rknebel.uplink.net it comes directly into my >box without the help of fetchmail. > >My box is up 24/7 expect for a few minutes every eight hours when It >adomatically redials when my ISP dissconnects me. OK.... The addition of mailboxes for users on your FBSD system is very easy..... Just use "adduser" to create the accounts.... You indicated that you have a popper installed on your box, I included the instructions for installing it anyway.... ***************************** Try the qpopper port at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/mail/popper.tar If you haven't installed a port before, this is a way to do it..... Log in a root Create a dir /usr/ports Create a dir /usr/ports/distfiles Create a dir /usr/ports/mail Go to the /usr/ports/mail dir Execute ftp ftp://ftp.freebsd.org When logged in as an anonymous user (name = ftp , password=abc@123.456, navigate to /pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/mail/ Download the port with the command "get popper.tar" When the port arrives, type "bye" to exit ftp Un-tar port with "tar -xvf popper.tar" Go to popper dir (cd popper) Enter "make" command Port will get source code, d/l it to /usr/ports/distfiles, patch it, compile it If "make" is ok, then enter "make install" followed by "make clean" There must be an entry in the password file for the "pop" user .... pop:*:68:6::0:0:Post Office Owner:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin Check the /etc/inetd.conf file to ensure that there is a pop3 entry...... pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/popper popper HUP your inetd process.... kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid` You are now able to get mail from your FBSD system with pop3 clients on your other workstations.... ************************************ As for the MX records, these are used to direct mail traffic for a domain to a specific host(s). Since you have a specific host name in your e-mail address, the mail will be sent to your system. However, if someone sent mail to rknebel@wigwam.uplink.net or rknebel@uplink.net, the mail would not get to your host unless an MX record in the authoritative NS for your domain said that it should.... > > > > >> If you have e-mail accounts elswhere, the process would involve using >> fetchmail to pull mail from the outside into the various internal mail >> boxes. If you have a limited time on-line, this would be more efficient. >> (ie. grab mail once per hour....) >> >> Have you got a pop server set up on your box? > >Yes becuae I pop into my box from work with netscape mail to check it. > > >> For the surfing part, are you running NAT or address aliasing (ppp has an >> aliasing option) or are you proxying out of your box from the inside net? >> > >I am running natd. > > >> >Would I have to create an account for all of them and have them all loged in >> >at the same time?? >> > >> >Just point me in the right direction. >> > >> >Thanks >> >Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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