On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Mike Burger wrote: > On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, David Smith wrote: > > > Hello List > > > > I want to learn how to set up a complete mail server. > > > > So I started trying to setup the smtp and pop3 services and I found it easy at first. > > > > The real question is: Can I have a mail server even if I don't have a domain name?? > > > > I started trying to retrive mail using a pop3 client installed in my machine and everything ok. > > > > Then I did the same but from a client like eudora or outlook in a computer (pop3) somewhere in internet and I > > used as pop3 server name my IP address and it worked. > > > > After what I tried to send mail to accounts in other servers and It didn't worked. > > > > I really at last, install IMP the Horde IMAP Client as a web interface and also let my users use the SMTP and > > POP3 services.. > > > > I've found many tutorials, manual and guides on configuring a mail server on linux and especially in redhat9, > > my distribution, but all of them are based on domain names and I don't have one. > > > > I've tried follow these tutorial "replacing" every domain ocurrence for my IP address but it didn't work. > > > > Is it possible to configure everything nedded without a domain name ? > > Yes...just give your system a name (fictitious is ok), arbitrarily. The > mailserver will need to have some sort of domain name, even if it's not > necessarily valid to the rest of the world. Hmmm, unless he uses his ISP as a smart host and doesn't try and send directly from his box it will work. If he tries to send directly with a fake domain name very few people will accept his mail. Sendmail by default is set to reject mail from unresolvable domain names. -- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
