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Is there a simple configuration of ppp and sendmail for a basic user
Intro: We have been running RedHat Linux at work for 3 or 4 years to connect to the internet through ppp and sendmail. The connections is great. Before with Window's dialup it was unsteady. We are on a WindowsNTver4 network.
Question: I would like to know if there is a way to configure the ppp and sendmail programs for a basic simple setup so that a homeuser with a standalone computer can connect to the internet and have the same reliability that we get at work?
I know sendmail has many configurations and is usually difficult to setup because of this, but I just want to know the basics assuming you have dns entries, gateway address and user name and password. I am currently using Linux 6.5 Mandrake with netscape and the kde desktop's kppp and email programs. It would also take know how to replace the kde desktop's programs with the more general ppp and sendmail.
Question: I would like to know if there is a way to configure the ppp and sendmail programs for a basic simple setup so that a homeuser with a standalone computer can connect to the internet and have the same reliability that we get at work?
I know sendmail has many configurations and is usually difficult to setup because of this, but I just want to know the basics assuming you have dns entries, gateway address and user name and password. I am currently using Linux 6.5 Mandrake with netscape and the kde desktop's kppp and email programs. It would also take know how to replace the kde desktop's programs with the more general ppp and sendmail.
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I would like to learn a little more about these 2 programs since they are used so much on Linux internet servers and since they seem to really make a dependable connection and give reliable service.
Though KPPP is simple, it would be nice to know what is the basic information to use to setup PPP, to be able to use Netscape, ditto for Sendmail. Obviously I don't understand some of the technical distinctions such as providing your own email services to yourself but I was hoping to learn a little more about how to setup these services at least in the most basic way and that seemed to be just for a standalone machine. That way if I need to set them up for instance or modify the one where I work, I will have a lot more understanding as well as have their dependability if they can work well with a standalone machine.
Though KPPP is simple, it would be nice to know what is the basic information to use to setup PPP, to be able to use Netscape, ditto for Sendmail. Obviously I don't understand some of the technical distinctions such as providing your own email services to yourself but I was hoping to learn a little more about how to setup these services at least in the most basic way and that seemed to be just for a standalone machine. That way if I need to set them up for instance or modify the one where I work, I will have a lot more understanding as well as have their dependability if they can work well with a standalone machine.
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Would be nice to know if ppp can be used just to set up a home connection. Since it was for a standalone computer that was more what I was thinking about.
It is nice to know what the basic parameters are for sendmail and why it really can't be used for a normal mail program unless possibly you timed it to check for mail when you went on the internet.
Will look into the sources.
Thanks very much for the help.
It is nice to know what the basic parameters are for sendmail and why it really can't be used for a normal mail program unless possibly you timed it to check for mail when you went on the internet.
Will look into the sources.
Thanks very much for the help.
Well yes, ppp is used for a home network connection. You can get ppp running from kppp (it's just an easy to use way of gettin a ppp link up) or you can use any of the other variants that I've inferred exist and are documented in the howto.
I think a lot of what I've talked about will become much more clear after you've had the time to read through the howto's. Another one that I didn't include the link to is the Mail howto. It and a lot of other docs are on http://howto.tucows.com/.
I think a lot of what I've talked about will become much more clear after you've had the time to read through the howto's. Another one that I didn't include the link to is the Mail howto. It and a lot of other docs are on http://howto.tucows.com/.
Other than for purely internal system use, a home Linux machine doesn't need to run sendmail. The user will either be dialing up to an ISP that provides email services, or to a work system that does likewise. The ISP will almost always provide POP3 and/or IMAP email service, so the user can run any of a number of email MUA's (pine, Netscape, etc) that support POP3/IMAP and read the email directly from the remote server and send messages back to that server via SMTP.