Ashamed

[Lucas Vogel]

Can we cover email clients too? I can't get pine to work properly,
making the big 'L' on my head grow bigger and brighter...

arson smith wrote:
> 
> Maybe we should have a PLUG meeting covering email
> server software.  This is something I would be really
> interested in learning a little about.  I too have
> tried to setup sendmail and qmail both.  For some
> reason both seemed more complex then they needed to
> be but I know there is a lot more to email than I
> am considering.
> 
> Just an idea
> 
> Bill Warner
> 
> >From: Mark Myers <mmyers@pamarq.com>
> >Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> >To: "plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us"
> ><plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> >Subject: Ashamed
> >Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 00:51:29 -0700
> >
> >I must confess something.
> >Though I have toyed with Linux for some time, I set my main domain
> >server up as an NT box because at least I know how to configure e-mail
> >with it.
> >I'm running a program out of New Zealand called DWatch that for 5 users
> >or less, is free.
> >I tried setting my server up running Mandrake Linux 7 and every time I
> >tried to send e-mail to a defined user, it would give an error message
> >back saying something to the effect of now relaying allowed.
> >At that time, I was not trying to relay, I was merely trying to send a
> >message to a registered user.
> >In frustration I reinstalled NT Server and installed DWatch which is
> >free for 5 users or less.
> >I don't want a big domain, or anything. I registered pamarq.com just to
> >learn more.
> >I wanted to run Linux on it, but could not because I didn't have the
> >know-how to set up Sendmail.
> >My main PC is running Linux with VMWare clients of Windows applications
> >primarily for my wife.
> >I want my server to be running Linux too, but have not found a simple
> >e-mail (pop3/smtp) program that is easy to configure within Linux.
> >Here is what I want:
> >2 or 3 users being able to log into pamarq.com (currently I have
> >mark@pamarq.com, mmyers@pamarq.com and pamela@pamarq.com). I also want
> >to be able to relay within my personal domain at fastq plus one other IP
> >address which is the firewall IP address of my company.
> >That is it. Nothing fancy.
> >I could figure out how to do this with DWatch for NT, but is there
> >something simple that I could run on Linux that would do the same thing?
> >I don't need heavy duty. I just want to prevent spammers from using my
> >server, but in the same way, I want to be able to relay from my server
> >while at work (my IP address for our firewall never changes).
> >Please help if you can help me to figure out a simple solution with
> >Linux.
> >I'm not an absolute novice, but I don't need anything fancy either.
> >At work I'm an NT administrator so I run a 100% Microsoft network (not
> >my choice). I was even told today to take the Linux server off that
> >monitored Internet usage.
> >So I need to be able to relay from 1 IP address from the Internet, and a
> >range of IP address (192.168.204.2*) (fictional) from home.
> >I don't want to run a business per se, nor do I want to run an ISP. I
> >just want to learn.
> >Any advice would be helpful.
> >Thanks!
> >Mark Myers
> >

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