[plug] Slackware Mail Server

[Mark J Gaynor]

Hey guys,

I think you are chasing the problem from the wrong end. It appears
that the domain is REAL as it resolves. I get an IP address for
kite.homelinux.net. - This is a good start, that means that everything
at *.homelinux.net will get to that IP address, including any mail.

The question must be asked is  kite.homelinux.net been delegated
properly. If it has not then a lot if things will be broken. To get mail
from xyz at iinet.net.au to xyz at kite.homelinux.net is as simple as 
forwarding the mail from one to the other. I'm sure iinet allow their
users to forward mail. If you a shell account, just put the new
address in a file in your home directory and name it .forward. (that's
dot_forward as it is a hidden file) All mail to that user get redirected
to the new address.

I have done this stuff many times before and have never had to use
fetchmail. If you have to go to that extent to get mail on
kite.homelinux.net then I would suggest that there is a delegation issue.

Mail me off list or call me 0429112704 and we can continue with the
problem.

Mark
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On 9/12/2005 at 8:10 PM Benjamin Woods wrote:

>Hey guys,
>
>I am trying to set up a slackware mail server.
>
>I want it to be accessible via pop3, imap and a webmail interface.
>This is just on my home server, and purely so that I can learn.
>I want to use slackware, and i want to use sendmail.
>I was thinking squirrelmail would be good for the webmail.
>
>My server is on a dynamic ip, and uses dyndns with kite.homelinux.net.
>This reaches my router, which then forwards it to my server.
>I have set up the port forwarding fine.
>
>I currently have sendmail appearing to work (i think... how do i test
>exactly?), and it can receive emails if i email bwoods at
>kite.homelinux.net.
>
>I have an email with iinet: woodsb02 at iinet.net.au
>I am downloading those emails with fetchmail which polls every 120
>seconds and uses pop3. I had a problem that when it downloaded the
>emails, it would sometimes send an email to the sender which looked like
>this:
>
>------------BEGIN EMAIL----------------
>X-Account-Key: account2
>Delivered-To: USERNAME1 at iinet.net.au
>X-BrightmailFiltered: true
>X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA==
>Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 18:21:24 +0800
>From: FETCHMAIL-DAEMON at kite.homelinux.net
>To: USERNAME1 at iinet.net.au
>
>[-- Attachment #1 --]
>[-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.1K --]
>
>Some addresses were rejected by the MDA fetchmail forwards to.
>
>
>[-- Attachment #2 --]
>[-- Type: message/delivery-status, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.2K --]
>
>Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost
>
>Final-Recipient: rfc822; woodsb02 at localhost
>Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:21:24 +0800 (WST)
>Action: failed
>Status: 5.1.1
>Diagnostic-Code: 550 5.1.1 <woodsb02 at localhost>... User unknown
>
>[-- Attachment #3 --]
>[-- Type: text/rfc822-headers, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.9K --]
>
>Delivered-To: USERNAME2 at iinet.net.au
>Received: (qmail 17684 invoked from network); 18 Oct 2005 22:56:43 -0000
>Received: from unknown (HELO mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony1.iinet.net.au)
>([203.59.1.195])
>(envelope-sender <USERNAME1 at iinet.net.au>)
>by mail.iinet.net.au (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP
>for <USERNAME2 at iinet.net.au>; 18 Oct 2005 22:56:43 -0000
>Received: from 203-59-86-124.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO [10.1.1.3])
>([203.59.86.124])
>by mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony1.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 19 Oct 2005
>06:56:41 +0800
>X-BrightmailFiltered: true
>X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAA+o=
>Message-ID: <43557DA5.1000800 at iinet.net.au>
>Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 06:56:37 +0800
>From: Phil Woods <USERNAME1 at iinet.net.au>
>User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716)
>X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>To: USERNAME2 at iinet.net.au
>Subject: RTKD Envelope
>Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
>boundary="------------040506030209030903020901"
>---------------END EMAIL--------------
>
>Where USERNAME1 is the username of the sender and USERNAME2 is my
>username at iinet. I think this was because woodsb02 didnt exist on my
>server... i use bwoods there instead! So i created an alias:
>
>cat /etc/mail/aliases
><snip>
>woodsb02:       bwoods
>
>I think its working again. is this right?
>
>Now, my next problem is that my imap server thinks the sent mail folder
>should be ~/Sent. I want all mail folders in ~/mail/ (except INBOX which
>should be in /var/spool/mail/bwoods)... is this an ok proposal? how can
>i fix this?
>
>Next, is it hard to set up squirrel mail?
>
>Finally... i will look at clamav and spamassassin for virus and spam
>filtering.... i have no idea about either yet... that could be fun!
>
>I do realise that sendmail is a beast and would take a LONG time to
>fully learn. The setup that comes with slackware seems ok by default...
>so i am hoping i can just dodge learning about this beast...
>
>
>Any suggestions are appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>-- 
>From: Benjamin Woods
>woodsb02 at iinet.net.au
>Registered Linux User #372573
>
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