Currently I'm in a small office with Linux Suse as the firewall and
web host and mail server. We are running Microsoft 2000 server to
run the Lan and internal network.

External (something from my yahoo account to my work) gives
error "204.214.45.253 does not like recipient" (and that's the IP of
the Linux box to the outside).

I think part of problem is the send mail, certainly doesn't look right

Hmm.. looks like I need to config the sendmail. Here's how green I
am. The README says
"SENDMAIL_TYPE=yes
SENDMAIL_LOCALHOST='localhost host.domain.com www.domain.com'"

Now my rcconfig says
"SENDMAIL_TYPE=yes
SENDMAIL_LOCALHOST=''"

so I need to give it some info, do I put in exactly as the README
says or put in my DNS or a combination?

We did have internal email, then the ISDN line was put in and we were
told that it would not work. And all the IP's were reset. Along with
changing the DNS of the Microsoft server. I am going to check the
ports again. My husband suspects its the people ISP.

When I try sending a message with outlook express from one of work
computers, well, I think I'm
not sure I set the defaults right. And this may be routing through
the Microsoft 2000 server.

When I set POP and STMP to "XdomainnameX.com"(XdomainnameX
being our DNS name)


I get the error "The host 'XdomainnameX.com' could not be found.
Please verify that you have entered the server name correctly.
Account: 'XdomainnameX.com', Server: 'XdomainnameX.com', Protocol:
POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11004, Error Number:
0x800CCC0D"

When I set POP and STMP to "mail.XdomainnameX.com"
I get the error "The connection to the server has failed.
Account: 'XdomainnameX.com', Server: 'mail.XdomainnameX.com',
Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10060,
Error Number: 0x800CCC0E"

Now this is a newer message after I reset the hosts in /etc/
So I may be making progress, along the hosts notes....there is a line
that looks different.

Looking at the var/log for the mail there is a whole slew of errors.

For the website we have set up and testing when an email comes in
from the website it ends up in the var/mail, which I assume is where
its supposed to go.

Frankly I'm confused, sendmail fetchmail, etc. Arrg.