Week 3: Send-mail Setup

INTRODUCTION:

This week needed to set up send-mail server. Like weeks prior it is important to pay close attention to the instructions and spelling/typos/spacing. In last blog had issues and noted that very fact. Another thing to note was to use the “cd” command to change directories more often to see where you are working versus using the whole directory path/ Example go from cd /var/spool/mail would now show that you are working in the mail folder. In comparison to typing that over and over again to make changes in the mail directory/folder.

IMAGE 1 (gedit)

NEW ITEMS:

Something new for this week was to use gedit see image 1 left versus using nano see image 2 below. The gedit gives a quick save button and other selections versus using ctrl “letter” choices to complete tasks.

IMAGE 2 (nano)

IMAGE 3

LAB 3 

Similar to weeks prior still had trouble shooting issues. The main issue was getting the #systemctl start sendmail.service and #systemctl status sendmail.service to display the example given in the lab. See image 3.

After looking on discussion board found that using restart versus start cured that problem. The final issue turned out to be that the users created could not get permission to view the mail being sent. Could see in the journalctl -xn command that the mail was sent just could not get the permissions to let the second user view the mail.

One suggestion was to use adduser <user> mail command and following after run chmod ug+rw /var/mail/<user>. This also gave no good results. 

CONCLUSION

Conclusion was still having problems in Skillsoft lab but if keep practicing it can only get better. So would recommend to all not matter how bad it gets keep on trying and learn from the errors.