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<title>Mail for the Home Network--Final Thoughts LG #45</title>
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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H4><font color="maroon">Mail for the Home Network</font></H4>
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<H1><font color="maroon">DNS for Mail</font></H1>
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<H4>By <a href="mailto:jpollman@bigfoot.com">JC Pollman</a>
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and <a href="mailto:bill.mote@bigfoot.com">Bill Mote</a></H4></center>
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<center><b><font size=+1>Some Final Thoughts</font></b></center>
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<p>Where does sendmail put the mail when it queues it? The mail queue directory
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is /var/spool/mqueue. All mail messages become two files, one named dfXXXnnnnn
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, the other qfXXXnnnnn , where XXX is a three-letter sequence, nnnnn a
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five-digit sequence. They are used to give every message a unique identifier.
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The "qf'", or queue control file, contains the e-mail message header and
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various processing information, and the "df'", or data file, contains the
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body of the e-mail message. There are other files, but they are of interest
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only to sendmail.
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<p>To see what sendmail is doing, check the file: /var/log/maillog. It
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is pretty hard to read, but is your only real chance to see what the error
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might be.
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<p>Some of you may log into your local computer with a different name than
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what you use for your ISP. Fetchmail will obviously get your mail and put
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it where it belongs, but sendmail needs some special help. Check out the
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<a href="ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Sendmail-Address-Rewrite">Sendmail-Address_Rewrite
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Howto</a>. If you have been able to followed this article, this Howto is
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pretty simple.
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<p>Do not be put off if things do not work the first time! I have been
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using sendmail for 4 years with varying degrees of success. It is a big
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beast that has evolved greatly over time. Since the vast majority of email
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on the internet travels via sendmail somewhere along the way, it is worth
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the time to get it working on your computer.
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<p><b>Final thoughts</b>: We have given you a cookie-cutter recipe for
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setting up a simple home mail system. Since success usually creates
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greater interest, here are some places to learn more:
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<p><a href="http://www.sendmail.org/">Sendmail Homepage</a>
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<br><a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/index.html">Fetchmail
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Homepage</a>
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<br><a href="http://www.hrweb.org/spambouncer/proctut.shtml">Procmail Info</a>
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<p>Two well know alternatives to sendmail:
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<p><a href="http://www.exim.org/">Exim</a>
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<br><a href="http://www.qmail.org/">Qmail</a>
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<center><H5>Copyright © 1999, JC Pollman and Bill Mote <BR>
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Published in Issue 45 of <i>Linux Gazette</i>, September 1999</H5></center>
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