Grobbendonk
05-10-2003, 04:55 PM
Hi, a bit of a long question about mail services.
I've got myself totally knotted up in this and I'd be very grateful for any guidance (or pointers to breif and simple documentation on this). I'll try to keep this short...
I have a small LAN, with a Linux server, several clients, a firewall (single link to internet) and several users. Some of the users have internet mail accounts. We all have mail accounts on the Linux server because the application on it mails local accounts.
To simplify mail a bit, I've set up qpopper on the server, so that the users can collect their local mail via Outlook (or whatever they want - I'm gradually persuading them that Evolution is better). I've also added a fetchmail to a couple of the accounts, so the internal server is happily getting people's external emails.
However, the problem I have is that I can't work out how to get mail to go OUT of the LAN via the Linux server. To keep this simple, imagine a user called fred, who gets internet email arriving at fred@isp.com and local mail arriving at fred@mandrake.int
When fred gets mail, the internal network and fetchmail (configured to get messages from fred@isp.com) deposit messages in his account fred@mandrake.int. Qpopper allows fred to read both mails via a single account on mandrake.
Problem - how do I get mandrake to send the outgoing appropriately?
I've spent ages going through and trying things from the documentation on sendmail, postfix and qmail. I suspect that the default installations will do everything I need (they definitely deliver the local mail happily), EXCEPT forward the mail onto the ISP, but that's where I get utterly lost.
Any pointers?
I've got myself totally knotted up in this and I'd be very grateful for any guidance (or pointers to breif and simple documentation on this). I'll try to keep this short...
I have a small LAN, with a Linux server, several clients, a firewall (single link to internet) and several users. Some of the users have internet mail accounts. We all have mail accounts on the Linux server because the application on it mails local accounts.
To simplify mail a bit, I've set up qpopper on the server, so that the users can collect their local mail via Outlook (or whatever they want - I'm gradually persuading them that Evolution is better). I've also added a fetchmail to a couple of the accounts, so the internal server is happily getting people's external emails.
However, the problem I have is that I can't work out how to get mail to go OUT of the LAN via the Linux server. To keep this simple, imagine a user called fred, who gets internet email arriving at fred@isp.com and local mail arriving at fred@mandrake.int
When fred gets mail, the internal network and fetchmail (configured to get messages from fred@isp.com) deposit messages in his account fred@mandrake.int. Qpopper allows fred to read both mails via a single account on mandrake.
Problem - how do I get mandrake to send the outgoing appropriately?
I've spent ages going through and trying things from the documentation on sendmail, postfix and qmail. I suspect that the default installations will do everything I need (they definitely deliver the local mail happily), EXCEPT forward the mail onto the ISP, but that's where I get utterly lost.
Any pointers?