Topic: dialup gateway + mail

[Patrick Kessen]

Hi,

this is my config.

the e-smith server is and is in domain startrek.home. I have an account pkessen
so the email address on my lan is pkessen@startrek.home.

when I mail to that from for instance jkessen@startrek.home is is delivered via the e-smith server.

my outside email address is p.kessen@lixus.com, the pop3 mailserver is pop.worldonline.nl and the smtp server is smtp.worldonline.nl

when I send email to p.kessen@lixus.com it's sent but I was under the impression that e-smith could poll the worldonline pop server for me and deliver that mail to pkessen@startrek.home. it doesn't poll the pop3 server and there is no place in the management webpages to add the pop3 server to. How do I get this working?

Also, I'd like to add that e-smith is great but there is room for improvements, I'd like the possibility to disable applenetworking from the webbrowser based admin. and I'd like a full fledged dns configurable via the webadmin interface.

Also it'd be nice to be able to set the squid cache size the same way. btw. why is squid not running on the standard proxy port 8080? in e-smith?

When e-smith is installed it keeps comming up with the admin interface on the local consoles 0 & 1, it'd be a great option (security wise) if this could be disabled from the browser based admin tool.

Patrick

[Patrick Kessen]

Oops, this actually works. My mistake.

It doesn't work in my situation because my outside mail user is p.kessen
and my e-smith account is pkessen.

Now all I have to do is find out how to create an alias for pkessen on my e-smith box so mail directed to p.kessen is delivered to pkessen.

Any ideas?

[Joseph Morrison]

Hi Patrick,

Creating aliases is not yet supported by the user interface, but it's really easy. Use Ctrl-Alt-F3 and log into the console as root with your system password.

Then create a file called /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-p.kessen and make it contain the single line:

pkessen

(The easiest editor to use is "pico" - let me know if you need help with this.)

Then type:

chown alias:qmail /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-p.kessen

Then you can log out and return to the console interface using Ctrl-Alt-F1. The alias will take effect immediately.

[Patrick Kessen]

Hi Joseph,

that's easy enough. Thanks.

Patrick