Re: Sco 507 Mail server


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pineapple" <roberquaNO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
To: <distro@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: Sco 507 Mail server


> "Brian K. White" <brian@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto nel messaggio
> news:019901c5fa67$44a4be70$931fa8c0@xxxxxxxx
>> Certainly.
>> Easy.
>> Depending...
>>
>> Details will have to wait until you tell us:
>>
>> * whether "Sendmail" or "MMDF" was chosen during install.
>> run scoadmin, go to mail, does it say mmdf or sendmail?
>
> MMDF
>
>>
>> * whether the sco box should be able to send mail out to the internet
>
> I think so but I do not care of it because I do not want they mail out to
> the internet. I want only a local mail system between the several clients

In that case it's nice and easy.

on the sco box:
what does "uname -n" show?
let's say it's "unixaa"

run scoadmin
mmdf configuration
put "unixaa.local" in the top left field
tab once to put the focus on "[ ] tcp/ip - Unconfigured"
hit space bar to enable tcp/ip
tab down to OK
exit scoadmin

on the pc's:
create a new mail account in outlook express
email address: usera@xxxxxxxxxxxx
pop: sco-ip-address
smtp: sco-ip-address
user: usera
pass: password

where "usera" is any existing sco box login username & password

For users to send email to each other:
* start a new message in outlook express
* click on the From: box and select usera@xxxxxxxxxxxx if it's not there
already.
* put userb@xxxxxxxxxxxx in the To: or Cc: or Bcc: fields

You can put the emails into the address book just like normal email
addresses so they have nicer display values like "James Belushi" instead of
jbel@xxxxxxxxxxxx

note: root can't do this unless you add "-a" to the end of the "pop3" line
in /etc/inetd.conf and then restart inetd with "tcp stop ; tcp start"
and you shouldn't do that unless you are somehow preventing tcp port 110
from reaching the unix box from the internet. You should block port 25 too.

>> * whether the site has a static public ip
>
> I do not know and I do not know how to check it

Since you don't want to mail in/out from the internet, just within the lan,
then we don't care about this any more.

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