Subject: Re: Email server
To: Eric Damien Berna <eric@thiel.com>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/19/1998 15:48:31
Eric Damien Berna wrote:
> I'm running NetBSD/mac68k version 1.3.1 on a Mac IIcx. I'd like to set it
> up as an email server for other machines. I was already using PowerMac 8100
> running MkLinux for this purpose, but I have to give up that machine. So I
> followed the same procedure as I did when setting up the MkLinux mail
> server, but it doesn't quite work.
> 
> What I did was setup sendmail according to the instructions given at
> <http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html> which explains how to setup
> vertual hosting with sendmail. This computer's host name is
> ftp.bernafamily.com and I want it to handle mail for all of the
> bernafamily.com domain. I also installed the qpopper package so that this
> machine would work as a pop server.
> 
> qpopper seems to work correctly, I'm able to log into and check for mail on
> this machine. But SMPT connections don't work. I'm unable to send mail
> using Eudora under Mac OS on another computer using this NetBSD machine as
> the server. I'm also unable to send mail to any accounts on this machine.
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestions?

Did you turn on sendmail in /etc/rc.conf?  Can you telnet into the smtp
port and get anything at all?  If not, sendmail probably isn't running...

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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