Starting Sendmail

Warp has a severe bug in it that allows it to be used as an Open-Relay for spammers. Install this Sendmail update and follow the README instructions before you proceed. Open up your TCP/IP Local Configuration Notebook and set Sendmail to Autostart as a Detached process and set the Parameters to -bd -q5m . You can also start Sendmail on the command line or in your startup.cmd file with start /min sendmail -bd -q5m

Creating Directories

In your D:\MPTN\ETC directory create a MQUEUE and MAIL directory. In the D:\MPTN\ETC\MAIL directory you just created add additional directories for each user like D:\MPTN\ETC\MAIL\admin. This is the admin@domain.com mailbox.

Editing Sendmail.cf

Edit D:\MPTN\ETC\sendmail.cf using tedit on the command line or a Unix style editor like the one found in Midnight Commander (Do Not Use E.EXE). Change your domain and drive letters for your machine as per example below. If you followed the README in the Sendmail Update you should be all set.

DDdomain.com

Cw domain.com

# Queue directory - this must be changed if TCP/IP is moved!
OQD:\MPTN\ETC\MQUEUE

# Aliases
OAD:\etc\sendmail\aliases

# SMTP, Local and Program Mailer specifications

Mlocal, P=d:\WPop3S\mailer.exe, F=lnsDFP, S=10, R=20, A=d:\mptn\etc\mail\ $u
Mprog, P=d:\os2\cmd.exe, F=lsDFM, A= /C $u

Aliases

Create a D:\etc\sendmail\aliases file and add the following to it (Included in the Sendmail update).

# Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present
MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster
postmaster: root

# mailman: admin@domain.com
# mailman-owner: mailman

Editing Services

Add the following lines to your D:\MPTN\ETC\services file to support the WPop3S daemon.

wpop3s 10048/tcp
wpop3s 10048/udp

Creating POP3 Mailboxes

Create a D:\WPop3S directory and install WPop3S v1.0 into it. Start the server and right click for the menu and add the users for boxes you created in D:\MPTN\ETC\MAIL. You now will be able to access your mail accounts with most clients, Netscape and Mozilla. Set your Incoming Mail Server and Outgoing(SMTP) Mail Server to your domain.com and add a user from a box you created in Preferences in your browser. You should now be sending and recieving email.

Note - There are other POP servers available at Hobbes but Yuri Dario's is the most current and is a 32-bit multi-threaded PM application. If you need a more Industrial Grade server you can check out Peter Moylan's Weasel or CommuniGate Pro for OS/2.

MX Records

Of course all of this will mean moot unless your ISP has your fully-qualified hostname pointing to your server for their MX records for mail.