[pedro@tastytronic.net: Re: [UFO Chicago] e-mail help]

[Peter A. Peterson II]

Whoops.

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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:32:20 -0500
From: "Peter A. Peterson II" <pedro@tastytronic.net>
To: Thomas <thomas@chicagomac.com>
Subject: Re: [UFO Chicago] e-mail help
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In-Reply-To: <000801c10015$15661790$8896e1d1@hp>; from thomas@chicagomac.com on Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:58:28PM -0500
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Quoting Thomas:
>    In short I have an ISP who generally is reliable, but their mail
>    server is not.  I've been asked to set up 3 new accounts, and change
>    two, and I'm tired of outages with the ISP's System.  So I want to put
>    in my own in house mail server.  

Like the kind of email that I receive at tastytronic.net and/or run our
mailing list from? Is there something you need to be able to do that
requires something beyond a computer, a network connection, and an SMTP
server?

>    I've taken a quick look and "e-smith"
>    looks more or less like what I want... easy to set up and maintain (or
>    so they claim) 

Again, I had no problems setting up exim on Debian. You would also want
to install a POP3 daemon for useraccess (since they're probably not
going to use mutt). What is it that e-smith provides that is so fancy?

>    and I can always fall back to a Mac solution until I
>    actually get it up and running.  So my question is this... what do I
>    REALLY have to do to direct mail for my companies domain
>    (dreamcolor.com) into my server?  Is it really as simple as calling my
>    provider and telling them what IP address to send it to?  What else do
>    I need to know?

That I'm not 100% sure of -- is www.dreamcolor.com on your local server,
but printerdude@dreamcolor.com goes somewhere else? That would require
changing of your DNS entries. But then you just point it back to
whatever machine is your central server, and install your mail software
on that machine.

> I hate to put requests like this out there, but I
>    only have about 24 hours to have a system up and running.  Any help
>    would be appreciated... but if it gets too technical I'm libel to tilt
>    my head from side to side like some poor mutt while I read it.

It's ok. THese kind of emergencies are understandable.

Anyone else have any suggestions?

pedro


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