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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: Gary Parker on April 16, 2003, 08:44:32 PM

Title: SME5.6 as 'smarthost'?
Post by: Gary Parker on April 16, 2003, 08:44:32 PM

Hi folks...forgive I sound a little vague but I'm not entirely sure of the terminology I should be using for this request.

I have SME5.6 running quite happily on my home network using the dyndns domain '.witewulf.ath.cx' with which I'm sending and receiving mail properly.

Now, I've recently added another machine to my network, a SPARCstation10 running Debian 3.0. During install it wanted to know how I wanted mail to be handled and the most sensible option seemed to be something called 'smarthost' whereby I gave it the details of my SME machine as it's mail server and it didn't hold any mail itself locally. All it needed to know was the domain (.witewulf.ath.cx) and the other server (spodbox.witewulf.ath.cx), however I have no idea what I now need to do on my SME machine to allow mail to be sent and received for the new machine (foo.bar@sparky.witewulf.ath.cx) anyone got any suggestions?

Gary

Title: Re: SME5.6 as 'smarthost'?
Post by: Charlie Brady on April 17, 2003, 08:27:41 AM

Gary Parker wrote:

> I have no idea what I now
> need to do on my SME machine to allow mail to be sent and
> received for the new machine (foo.bar@sparky.witewulf.ath.cx)
> anyone got any suggestions?

Nothing for it to send on behalf of the other machine. If you want it to receive and keep locally mail for *@sparky.witewulf.ath.cx you'll need to configure a virtual domain.  But better would be to configure the sparc to send as user@witewulf.ath.cx, wouldn't it?

Charlie