qmail setup newbie

[Harvey]

Actually, I'm a complete newbie to all of this mail server-ing stuff.

what I really want to do, is use qmail to act as a smtp server to send email that I write on other systems.

But, I wouldn't mind of course learning about whatever else qmail can do for me as well.

I'm following this... http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#installation

I don't have a domain name for my system, so I guess that sending email 'to' my system would be impractical... correct? because I'd have to do username@my.ip.xx.xx ?

But I could still use it to send mail out to other people right? Even if they are not on my network?

I'm not really sure how all this works, any general knowledge you can give me would be appreciated! :)


*** In qmail news, I have gotten to the point where I am testing, however when I do this... it's specified in TEST.deliver

echo to: name@remoteemailaddy.com | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject

I get nothing, no error messages, no output, and no mail to that email address...
hrm.

[ 18 February 2001: Message edited by: Harvey ]

[Harvey]

This looks nice too... http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/OS/Qmail.html

[bubba]

Harvey-

Qmail is a great package, keep on pluggin with it.

Yes, you can use it to send mail out, however, make sure to set your return address to something that won't bounce.

Qmail does not have 'root' as a valid user. You have to set an alias to a different user. I was trying to test by sending to root and that burned me.