This chapter is worth a book on it’s own due to the sheer power & complexity of the software
packages available to run a smtp (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) daemon on port 25. The most well
known & respected (feared more likely) is Sendmail. Although there is an immense amount of
information available on the internet, you will soon discover that you may have bitten off more
than you can chew :o)
I have yet to find a tutorial that enabled me to configure the sendmail daemon, & most of all
to get it to work ;o). The publishers O’Reily (better known as GOD when it comes to books on Linux
& Unix) have a Sendmail book that is close to 1000 pages, trust me,..... it is no coincidence
that the book is that big, it has to be that big! I have this book & it helps, but it still doesn’t work :o).
I have to admit that I am still trying to get my head around sendmail & haven’t actually
got it working. For my purposes it is really not necessary to have an smtp daemon running,
but it doesn’t hurt to know how it works, if you’re a hardcore masochist that is :o). I send the
mails directly off to my "email" provider from my "Windoze" machine, without
using a smtp daemon service on the server.
If I ever get it up & running, & have understood how I did it, then I will add the
information here. On the other hand, if you know how to get it running for a situation similar
to mine please feel free to drop me a line, would love to hear from you.
