09-20-2001
if you plan on sending mail to the outside world and haveing them being able to respond back then yes you need a valid realworld ip. a hostname helps.
Internic and 100 other companys can do this for you. OR you can call your service provider and let them know what you are doing and they will be able to get you going.
Hardware: depends on what kind of a scale your looking at. it doesnt take a beast of a machine to do mail and mail only. any box you can pick up off the net will just about do. so long has it has a fair amount of ram/ hd space/ nic card.
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
mconnect
mconnect(1) User Commands mconnect(1)
NAME
mconnect - connect to SMTP mail server socket
SYNOPSIS
mconnect [-p port] [-r] [hostname]
DESCRIPTION
The mconnect utility opens a connection to the mail server on a given host, so that it can be tested independently of all other mail soft-
ware. If no host is given, the connection is made to the local host. Servers expect to speak the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) on
this connection. Exit by typing the quit command. Typing EOF sends an end of file to the server. An interrupt closes the connection immedi-
ately and exits.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-p port Specify the port number instead of the default SMTP port (number 25) as the next argument.
-r "Raw" mode: disable the default line buffering and input handling. This produces an effect similar to telnet(1) to port
number 25.
OPERANDS
The following operand is supported:
hostname The name of a given host.
USAGE
The mconnect command is IPv6-enabled. See ip6(7P).
FILES
/etc/mail/sendmail.hf help file for SMTP commands
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
telnet(1), sendmail(1M), attributes(5), ip6(7P)
Postel, Jonathan B., RFC 821, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, August
1982.
SunOS 5.10 9 Nov 1999 mconnect(1)