topic Re: sendmail in linux in Operating System - Linux

sendmail in linux

jane zhang — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:13:49 GMT

Hi all,

How can I configure sendmail in my linux box so that I ( my_account@my_host ) can receive email from my PC's outlook or any other remote hosts?

Thanks,

Jane

Re: sendmail in linux

RAC_1 — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 23:38:48 GMT

You can use email client. like kmail in kde.

Re: sendmail in linux

Gopi Sekar — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 00:16:29 GMT

For client side you don't need sendmail running on your system.

If you want to pull email from mail servers (like Exchange server) then use Evolution. It is open source and has almost similar interface that of Outlook.

Regards,
Gopi

Re: sendmail in linux

jane zhang — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 18:49:46 GMT

I am interested in received other users's outlook email to my linux box and then then the email will be forwarded to my outlook for review.

I am doing this since I install majordomo in my linux box.

Currently, I tried a test by sending a outlook email to my unix account, and it is not showing up in my linux box. I understand this is default in linux, how to turn it on?

Jane

Re: sendmail in linux

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 05:26:23 GMT

If all you want to do is look at outlook/exchange mail, you may be able to use a browser to connect to the mail server.

Many exchange servers have web interfaces.

To correctly answer your question I would have to know a few things.

1) What kind of mail server is the mail on right now?

2) What methodology do you wish to use to forward your mail.

There are a few broad choices here. You could make your linux box the primary mail server for the organization, install dovecot or cyrus imap server and let your users keep all their mail on this box.

You could use this Linux box as a relay with various configuration changes in /etc/mail configuration files.

If you define the project, I can probably point you the right direction. Right now the query is too vague for me to assist further.

SEP