I am trying to setup sendmail in my internal network,
Question 1
I did a port scan and verified that sendmail is running on smtp port 25
then I connected to it with telnet and tried to sent an email to myself.
I used the email account username@computername correct me if I am wrong in the @ part of the email by default I thought after the @ is the computer name you are running the sendmail service on. Note I don't have a static ip / domain name if I did I would use my @domain.name
Question 2
where is the emails placed when I installed sendmail it never created any mbox or mail folders in the users home directory. Are you suppose to create these manual. If so how do I do it?
Also where are the emails being placed when I am sending them thru telnet???
Question 3
I have done a check in /var/mail/ and their is one file that is named my user name when I look in it I see all the emails I have been sending thru sendmail concataneted together one after the other. I am wondering is this where all the failed emails go for a user. what exactly is /var/mail directory for? (this may have answered question 2 to some extent)
Question 4
Does sendmail just work on smtp or can you have it do imap/pop3 stuff?
Basically does sendmail come with a imap or pop daemon or must you download an
additional pop / imap daemon ...etc?
Basically I am finding it weird that I can telnet in or use a client to send mail but
sendmail doesn't have the ability to let you view email???
If am wrong with this please inform.
Thanks
Question 1
I did a port scan and verified that sendmail is running on smtp port 25
then I connected to it with telnet and tried to sent an email to myself.
I used the email account username@computername correct me if I am wrong in the @ part of the email by default I thought after the @ is the computer name you are running the sendmail service on. Note I don't have a static ip / domain name if I did I would use my @domain.name
Question 2
where is the emails placed when I installed sendmail it never created any mbox or mail folders in the users home directory. Are you suppose to create these manual. If so how do I do it?
Also where are the emails being placed when I am sending them thru telnet???
Question 3
I have done a check in /var/mail/ and their is one file that is named my user name when I look in it I see all the emails I have been sending thru sendmail concataneted together one after the other. I am wondering is this where all the failed emails go for a user. what exactly is /var/mail directory for? (this may have answered question 2 to some extent)
Question 4
Does sendmail just work on smtp or can you have it do imap/pop3 stuff?
Basically does sendmail come with a imap or pop daemon or must you download an
additional pop / imap daemon ...etc?
Basically I am finding it weird that I can telnet in or use a client to send mail but
sendmail doesn't have the ability to let you view email???
If am wrong with this please inform.
Thanks
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