Scalix as Client

[Athropos]

Hi!
Hopefully, I can express what I intend to do.

I am sharing a linux server (hosted) with some friends and there we set up a mail system.
Now, I would like to install scalix on my own server at home and have it use the mail system on the hosted server as its base. As I imagine it syncs the mails with the hosted server (via imap) and uses this server as smtp.
Is that possible? If so, how?

thx & regards,
Athropos

[kanderson]

Set up your server at home, and then use fetchmail to pull the messages from the hosted server to your house. From there, just use your own server as if it was the only server.

Fetchmail is well documented, including here, so I won't post instructions.

Kev.

[Athropos]

Thank you!

But don't I run into problems?
On the one hand having my sent mail on the hosted server too, on the other hand if the recieving server ist checking reverse DNS?

[kanderson]

If you REALLY want to cover everything, then set up sendmail to use the hosted server as your smarthost. That's well documented too.

Note that with Scalix 11, you should define a smarthost in sendmail.mc rather than sendmail.cf, otherwise your entry will be lost when you upgrade. As long as you redo the changes after each upgrade, that won't matter, but just be aware of it. Again, this is very easy to set up, and well documented in this forum, as well as elsewhere.

Kev.