Configuring scalix for external mail (for noobs)

[2xj]

I have managed to get myself into a complete state of confusion surrounding how to configure scalix for both getting external mail from an isp and splitting it up for the local users and also sending email through an isp for non local addresses. Could someone be so kind as to point me in the right direction with some sort of list of what to configure to allow this to happen.

Thanks in advance.

Jeff

[florian]

well, there is two parts to it....

1. incoming
- this depends on if your ISP will deliver mail to you via SMTP or if you have to retrieve it using POP or IMAP. in the first case, all you have to make sure is that the ISP points the SMTP feed to your scalix server. as long as the SMTP addresses are known, it will happily accept the messages. If you need to retrieve your messages, you will have to configure the Linux fetchmail tool to get them and submit them to scalix via SMTP. search for fetchmail on this forum to find configuration examples.

2. outgoing
- do you send directly to all the servers in the internet? in that case, just setting up your DNS correctly will do the trick. if you need to send via a specific mail relay server at your ISP, you'll need to configure a smarthost in sendmail. this is dann using the SMARTHOST macro in your .mc file or the DS configuration line in your .cf file. also, see sendmail smarthost for details. in some cases, you'll need to authenticate against your ISPs SMTP relay to be able to send mail; in that case, you will need to use sendmail AuthConfig, again, please search this forum for the term and find configuration examples.

Hope this helps,
Florian.

[2xj]

Great. Thank You. I will do that.