[plug] sendmail...?

[John Breen]

>MMmm hey John,
>
>Why don't you try and set up you winblows box with Linux and then
you can 
>run that with Squid and Sendmail and the likes....
>A lot more stable and secure for you too..
>
At the risk of sounding stupid (but hey, I do that anyway...) I need
the windows box up & running, and didn't have a modem for the linux
box.

I have recently got a 56K modem for my linux box, and I am in the
process of trying to get everything to talk so that I can hook up my
linux box on the net and get mail, etc to there and then use a pop
client on the windows box to read it.  Basically, the Linux box is
better specced than the winblows box, and will become a
server/gateway machine.

>This is what I do at home ...
>workstation: RH 6.2, X, and blah....
>server: RH 6.2, Sendmail, Fetchmail, Squid, and blah...
>
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>You Can Do It
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>
>
>At 11:56 11/05/2000 +0800, you wrote:
>>For the last week or two I've had Linux happily going through the
>>Wingate proxy on my Winblows box to pick up my e-mail, and
>>everything's gone fine.
>>
>>Now I find that it hasn't actually done my e-mail since (uhhh...)
>>Saturday morning (might be Friday).  When I run fetchmail manually,
I
>>get all sorts of error messages, something like
>>
>>79 messages for jbreen#mail.wn.com.au at wombat
>>Fetching message 1 of 79
>>SMTP: plug-request at linux.org.au - Sender must resolve domain
>>SMTP: Error connecting to localhost - connection refused
>>SMTP: wombat - must specify a domain
>>
>>I haven't made any changes other than a kernel recompile to get it
to
>>pick up my net card (BTW, thanks all for the help - I wound up
>>getting a PCI RTL8029 card for $24.40 new, and all is well with the
>>network).
>>
>>I'm assuming that the problem is with sendmail or exim (whichever is
>>installed), as those are the services that deal with delivering
mail.
>>
>>Any ideas anyone?  My mail is building up on the server, and I hate
>>reading via the web...
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>John Breen
>>
>
>
>Regards
>Paul Dean
>Computing Centre
>9350 5430
>paul at canningcollege.wa.edu.au
>
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