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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Mail server in home network and without domain name Post 302105345 by squid04 on Thursday 1st of February 2007 06:50:53 AM
Old 02-01-2007
Mail server in home network and without domain name

Hi peeps,

I want to learn how to configure mail servers, I am in private network, I am running debian 4.0, practically I have tried courier-mta, courier-imap, postfix, and sendmail.
sometimes I am able to send mail and not able to connect to my imap server which is localhost, sometimes I am able to connect to imap but not able to send mail, etc.
I dont have a domain name and i could not have it. So my question is "is it neccessary to have a domain name to configure mail server? I know i cant recieve mails from internet coz of that.
I am doing this because i want to learn things grounds up. I mean if I am able to do this in home net than i can go on doing this on a static ip and a domain name.
but for the sac of practicing and time being, is there any way to do it ??? I have configured dns on the same machine with a fake and unique domain name which nobody else on the internet have.
I think it will be a good idea for peoples who like to write articles on Howtos and guides.
I am not asking you to spoon feed me, I am asking this because I am confused. I have read and tried a lot of things in very small amount of time,
because of that the information stored in my mind is not linked properly.
so it would be great if you could just clear up things a bit for me.

any links to tutorials will be appriciated.
Thanks for reading my ramblings Smilie
 

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