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Re: mail
Hi,
I'd suggest installing qmail on your system. you can solve all the
problems using qmail, and in elegant ways (i.e. a few lines in
the control file).
Shachar.
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, S. Schapiro (gold) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> first I'd like to thank all of you who came to our meeting in jerusalem - it
> was very nice.
>
> I managed to set up (with the help of Alex and Shimon) my Linux-box as an
> masquerading gateway to the internet - works just great (after long
> deliberations with the how-to's I found out the my distribution comes with a
> perfectly working script to start masquerading :-) ). (To Alex: The problem
> with the routing was that the sl0 was set to 0.0.0.0:0.0.0.0 . This somehow
> blocked the routing so that nothing could reach the network. I set it to
> 192.168.11.12:192.168.11.12 , the local IP, and it started to work
> perfectly, dialing when neccessary, even when accessed from geni). We also
> set up mail-swapping (fetchmail & sendmail -q) and it works just fine. There
> are 2 problems left, though:
>
> 1. Whenever I send a mail from the Windows-station (there I defined nessy,
> my gateway, as SMTP mail gateway), sendmail immediately tries to forward it
> to it's recipient. This establishes a Internet connection everytime and the
> whole idea was to save on those (phone bill etc.) and swap mail twice a day.
>
> 2. The other problem is that sendmail delivers mail itself, where I want it
> to relay it to mail.inter.net.il (my ISP mailserver) and let
> mail.inter.net.il do the dirty work. Also I have the feeling that it doesn't
> manage to deliver all mail (same solution, probably). Furthermore mail sent
> from the Windows-station ("geni") has a sender's host of
> 'geni.home.inter.net.il' instead of 'inter.net.il' (My mail-client put's
> schapiro@inter.net.il in the From: field, though). This migth lead to
> confusion.
>
> I use sendmail bec. that's what came with the distrib. I also tried smail,
> but that didn't work/behave the same. I unfortunately don't understand how
> to configure sendmail (or install another package) to do the following task:
>
> 1. deliver mail locally (under 'home.inter.net.il', my "domain") immediately
> 2. deliver mail to the internet only when *I* tell it to do so
> 3. to hide (masquerade) my home network so that ALL *outgoing* (=not local)
> mail appears to be sent from schapiro@inter.net.il (or at least
> schapiro@mail.inter.net.il )
>
> Any help to reach above solution will be highly appreciated !
>
> Schlomo
>
> PS: I am sorry, but I hadn't yet the time to write up a summary of the
> meeting :-( Perhaps someone else volunteers ?
>
>
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Shachar Tal - Computer Science, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
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