Re: [SLUG] Running a mail server in the privacy of my own home

From: Mike Manchester (mchester@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Apr 04 2002 - 06:27:58 EST


Bill:
Can you post the steps you did to do this. Or better yet add this to the
Slug How-to, as I'm sure there will be others interested in doing this,
now that Yahoo is going to start charging everyone to use the mail
forwarding function of Yahoo.

Thanks
Mike M

Bill wrote:

>On Wednesday 03 April 2002 22:23, you wrote:
>
>>Bill cross posted this to MDLUG, and someone from there CC'd our list,
>>where it (of course) bounced.
>>
>
>Guilty as charged and sorry for the CC but I am tantalizingly close ... but
>have yet to taste victory.
>
>I can get mail addressed to bill@a.organic-earth.com. Now what I want to do
>is get it addressed to bill@organic-earth.com and also allow my wife and
>close family to have accounts on this server (using recent postfix)
>
>
>
>Am I headed in the right direction (to get mail addressed to
>organic-earth.com) or should I show a.organic-earth.com in the Host Name
>section?
>
>
>Host Name Priority Mail Server
>organic-earth.com Hi a.organic-earth.com <--original entry
>organic-earth.com Hi organic-earth.com
>
>/etc/hosts looks like this:
>[root@a bill]# cat /etc/hosts
>127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
>192.168.xxx.xxx a.organic-earth.com a
>#192.168.xxx.xxx organic-earth.com a organic-earth
>
>Does my problem perhaps lie here?
>
>Yahoo has announced that they want folding money for hosting e-mail and I am
>tired of changing my email address every few minutes (or so it seems).
>Moreover, organic-earth.com is intended to eventually add to the family
>exchequer so I thought it would be a good idea to have my email coming to
>bill@organic-earth.com instead of the current organicearthdotcom@yahoo
>address. That "@yahoo" sticks in my craw.
>
>Bill
>



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