LAN email server using postfix...

[coughee]

hello

i am wanting to set up an inter-office email server. there is no internet connection.

question(s) being:

1. for a lan email server with no internet connection, can i use any ole domain name (bogus name) for the 'fully qualified domain'? ie: me@my_creatively_named_domain.com

2. if so, where do i set the domain name in Mandrake 8.1?

3. is postfix the best option for this?

any help would be muchly appreciated.

thanks.....

[chrisge]

I am no postfix expert but yes postfix works great adn is really easy for just interoffice communication. although I would recomend seting it up to go external also it is not that much more difficult.

[X_console]

You can set a bogus domain name. Set it using hostname, and adding it to /etc/hosts

[Chatterjee]

try using exim... it's a lot easier to configure in my opinion. www.exim.org (http://www.exim.org)

-S

[MarkLeong]

Do you want people to send mail directly to your mail server? If yes, you will have to make a MX record entry in the DNS.

I have tried to use a non-public host (not registered with DNS) and found that some mail servers reject the mail when they could not locate the host. Tried relaying but was not allowed by my ISP.