Is it possible to build a SMTP server?

[Harvey]

Is it possible to create your own SMTP mail server? So you can like send out your own email? I wonder...

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[FoBoT]

yes

check the response from craig in this thread
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/Forum21/HTML/001395.html

[Harvey]

just to see if there is already a smtp server running on my comp... it's slack7.1


How do I use the 'mail' command?
I tried to read the manual, man mail, but nothing, also tried mail --help but nothing there either.

how would I try to send a message using that command line based
'mail'
program?

thanks http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[Mountainman]

for the cli mail program you just type "mail username" with username being whoever you want to mail on your local system. Putting together a mail server is on my list of things to do also.

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[Harvey]

could I email people not on my local system with cli mail?

by doing mail blah@wherever.com?
and after you compose the message...


how do you send it?? http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[tminos]

echo "Subject: Signup" | mail majorom@foo.net

For example will send a blank email to majordom (Majordomo email list) at foo.net with the subject of "Signup."

"mail" is usually just used for really simple things. I would recomend mutt or elm for normal use.

[Harvey]

okay cool thanks for the tip, I tried that...
echo "Subject: test" | mail hbeasley@indiana.edu

in that format, no error messages...
but no mail delivered either.
i guess this means that my smtp server isn't quite working yet huh?

I'm in the process of trying to make exim now... but it's being evil to me. heh.

update: it just told me that i had new mail in the /var/spool/mail/username/ directory, but still no message at my @indiana.edu addresss

[This message has been edited by Harvey (edited 25 January 2001).]

[Ryeker]

Try "telnet localhost 25". See what you get.

This will help once you get in:
http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/821/14.htm

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[Harvey]

ahhh, interesting, it says that sendmail is running right now.
I gotta turn off sendmail and get exim in it's place.
could you guys look at my post in the software section about exim? thanks for the tips http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[Harvey]

yikes... that's an RFC i'm reading.
This stuff is technical http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/eek.gif
but i'll tough it out. Wish me luck.

[JAdrock]

I don't know, but speaking for myself, the overall best MTA is postfix, I've never once ran into a problem with it once I got the basics setup, it's easy to understand and best of all *snickers* it works for me!

[Craig McPherson]

Originally posted by tminos:
echo "Subject: Signup" | mail majorom@foo.net

For example will send a blank email to majordom (Majordomo email list) at foo.net with the subject of "Signup."

Actually you have that reversed. Standard input goes to the text of the message's body. I just tried it, and you can't insert headers like that. That command would send an e-mail with a blank subject with "Subject: Signup" in the body. You need to use the -s argument to mail to set a subject. Like this:

cat /proc/kcore | mail -s 'Comments on your budget plan' president@whitehouse.gov

(Well, I guess I should stop doign that now -- I like the President we have now, but 8-year-long habits are hard to break)

Anyway, that's how the mail command works.

[Harvey]

Can anyone give me some tips on how to use exim?

to test the mail stuff again I did
cat access_log | mail -s 'test' hbeasley@indiana.edu

just to see if it worked however... no mail yet. guess that just means my smtp server isn't working.
must.. use.. exim....

[Ryeker]

Sorry, off topic. What's kcore?

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[Harvey]

type cat /proc/kcore and stand back!
It'll blow your hair back...

[Ryeker]

I did. But it's a huge file. Just wondering what it was.

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