[plug] Small office email problems

[Bill Kenworthy]

Is your DNS working properly?  Turn tracing on and follow what the pop
client is doing.

BillK


On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 21:58, Kevin Shackleton wrote:
> A breakthrough with this problem - I set a client to a fixed IP address and filled the
> hosts tables on the gateway and on the client with all the machine IPs and names.  I
> was then able to pump through a 1 MB email to myself.  Only using ipchains
> MASQuerading - no MTA or POP tools.
> 
> So I guess the question shifts to: is there a LAN configuration issue I've
> overlooked?  I'd rather use DHCP than fixed IP, at least for a couple of the PCs which
> may be set up on other LANs.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> K.
> 
> Kevin Shackleton wrote:
> 
> > I have a problem with email provision for four users in a small office scenario.
> >
> > Our dial-up network connection works relatively well (50 kbps) and we have had no
> > problems with running a Windows machine dialing up and getting our email from
> > Bigpond using Outlook 2k.
> >
> > I have now set up a network with a Linux machine (RedHat 7.1) functioning as the
> > PPP gateway.
> >
> > Web access works fine using squid - no trouble getting 1 MB files out to networked
> > clients.
> >
> > I set up accessability to mail.bigpond.com by adding a MASQ rule to ipchains
> > forwarding.  I have not set up an MTA.  The setup works for test files but appears
> > to time out with typical (30 KB) emails, with all clients using Win98 and Outlook
> > 2k.
> >
> > There appears to be two approaches to get email to work - overcome the MASQ
> > timeout issue (if that's really what the problem is) or set up sendmail to
> > (hopefully) overcome timeout issues.
> >
> > I've not set up sendmail before and could not find a recipe for a simple relaying
> > configuration.
> >
> > I'd be keen to liaise with someone with expertise in this area of configuration -
> > either effective MASQ'ing or MTA'ing.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > K.
>