hello all,
i have this setup at my office....
i have setup redhat7.1 linux on an p166 with 16 mb ram and 1.2 gb hdd. i use this box for two things
1. as a proxy server(squid) 2. as a mail server(sendmail + fetchmail + procmail)
now when i say mail server it actually does not have a static ip etc. what it does is it dials every 15 min to vsnl and polls to my mail server in US and downloads mails from this pop3 server. on the linux box i have setup accounts for all the employes. they use win98 with netscape to get their mails.
my simple question is how do these ppl get the mails? i mean what config is req at netscape for it to be possible and also at my server? the mails go to the resp. mailboxes at the linux box correctly. i checked it in the /var/spool/mail dir. so only prob is to download mails from linux machine to win machine via netscape. do i need a pop3 deamon running? i had one and everything was fine but the damn deamon crashed everything it could get its hands on. i read somewhere that i do not need pop3 for this but the language in the howto seems latin to me!!! the howto is at
http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/mini-HOWTO/Offline-Mailing-1.php3
this idea is great but i cant get it to work. could someone please enlighten me abt where i am going wrong? or could someone translate the same howto in plain english. configuring sendmail is a big headache!!
thanx in advance
regards sagar sule
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Sometime on Aug 24, Sagar Sule assembled some asciibets to say:
to download mails from linux machine to win machine via netscape. do i need a pop3 deamon running? i had one and everything was fine but
Yes, you need a pop3 daemon running. You could also use imap.
the damn deamon crashed everything it could get its hands on. i read somewhere that i do not need pop3 for this but the language in the howto seems latin to me!!! the howto is at
http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/mini-HOWTO/Offline-Mailing-1.php3
It doesn't say anything about people reading mail remotely. Locally, you don't need a daemon, but if you want to read from another machine, you do.
Philip
Sometime yesterday, Sagar Sule wrote:
my simple question is how do these ppl get the mails? i mean what config is req at netscape for it to be possible and also at my server? the mails go to the resp. mailboxes at the linux box correctly. i checked it in the /var/spool/mail dir. so only prob is to download mails from linux machine to win machine via
You'll need to run a pop/imap server on the Linux box. Try QPopper (Qualcomm), it's nice and easy to setup. I was running QPopper on FreeBDS last year with Outlook as mail client on Windows machines.
Manish J.
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