A Mailserver That WORKS!
Finally! I’ve managed to get a mailserver set up that actually works!
When I had to reboot the server so that they could replace the electricity meter downstairs (which annoyingly made me miss the target of having the server up for a whole year with no kernel issues) I had a small surprise. Appearing in my gmail account were some emails from this blog system about users and posts. How the hell were they appearing?!
Investigation showed that on the reboot the mail programmes were back up and running, after I’d given up and turned them off a while ago, and in the meantime some parts of the system had been updated and sending mail to the outside world worked.
Getting the receiving of mail to work took quite a lot longer, and a few more hairs being pulled off the head, but I think I’ve finally cracked it. Even with anti-virus and anti-spam measures in place too. Yippee!
And I can even collect it from the server using the Thunderbird email client over an encrypted connection too.
Finally, all up and running, and all from an accident!