I use e107 CMS for my website hosted on a Linux Mandrake server in my room...

During registration I want it to be able to send a validation email users have to activate for their account to work. It has settings for me to enter a SMTP server and user/pass information. How can I setup my Linux box to be a SMTP server? That way I don't have to use my local ISP to relay the mail?

Do I need to install sendmail or something similar?

you dont need sendmail you can use postfix instead that is a lot easier from what I've heard

HERE you can find a couple of guide how to setup an email server

also you can google it and will find alot of stuff on the subject



a2carat

Great! Thanks for the advice!

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to my knowledge, the sendmail daemon is installed and up and running with most distros. Try setting an email app to use the local host as the sendmail server and see if any mail makes it anywhere.

You may need to make the following changes to your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file:

change the line
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl
to:
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=0.0.0.0, Name=MTA')dnl


But I think that is only if you want your sendmail server to route messages comming from other machines. Your rig might already be setup to do what you need it to do.

-nic