how can i configure sendmail ,so i can accept mail on my pc's outlook?

[常有慈悲心]

any prompt will be great appreciated.

[Patrick Wallek]

Sendmail really has nothing to do with being able to retrieve mail via Outlook. Sendmail will send and receive mail in the box, but NOT act as a POP3 or IMAP server. You need something else for that.

A program I use is QPopper. It is good and it is free.

http://www.eudora.com/products/unsupported/qpopper/index.html

[Rajeev Shukla]

Other thing i have done is, if your sendmail is running on Unix then create a unix user for the account which will receive a mail so the mail goes to /var/mail and then you can configure your outlook to fetch mails

[Hoang Chi Cong_1]

Hi China Demo

To configure sendmail, you can refer to this documentaion...I think it is quite complete description about mail: how to configure...
Refer to chapter 4: Installing and Administering sendmail.

Here is a thread that had the same question:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=95458

What about DNS? If you use DNS it is more complex to configure sendmail.
Of course you can accept mail on your PC :)

Hope this helps and goodluck to you
Regard,
HoangChiCong

[常有慈悲心]

thanks everyone.
i will try .

[常有慈悲心]

QPopper make error,
please help

[Gary Cooper_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi China,

I set this up a while ago so that my Unix mail was redirected to my Exchange server and hence picked up by users using Outlook.

The key things are to make sure you set up /etc/mail/aliases (do a Man aliases).

Then just execute the newaliases command.

Regards,

Gary

[Hoang Chi Cong_1]

Hallo

Because you do not show us the detail of the error. Should post the errors from make to get better help.
For Qpopper, you can find the FAQ and the manul from this site:
http://www.eudora.com/products/unsupported/qpopper/documentation.html
And here is thread, take a look:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=470708

What about the version of Qpopper in your system?

Regard,
HoangChiCong

[Gerhard Roets]

Hi China

You can not pickup mail for users with UID below 100. Hence you can not pickup mail for root.

Hence you need to forward the mail to users above that number. For this you can use a .forward file.

PS! Do not give the .forward file to many permission to be edited by other users permissions.

HTH
Gerhard

[常有慈悲心]

thanks ,everyone.
i have used qpopper to receive mail from my pc's outlook.


.
but i can only accept one host's mail,
how can i configure sendmail to send mail
to other host 's user?

[Gary Cooper_1]

Hi China,

I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to acheive.

Do you want to sent Unix mail for to and to , etc.

Or do you want to sent Unix mail for to and ?

Or something else?

Could you please explain in more detail what you're trying to acheive?

Regards,

Gary

[常有慈悲心]

i want to :
i have to host:
hp1.hp.com
hp2.hp.com
.
every host has a sendmail server.

l login from hp1.hp.com use user1 and send
a mail to user2@hp2.hp.com.


can i do that?

[Gary Cooper_1]

I am assuming that you can send e-mail from user1 on hp1.hp.com to user2 on hp1.hp.com.
I am also assuming that hp2.hp.com is an exchange server.

Edit /etc/mail/aliases and add:

user2 : user2@hp2.hp.com

Then execute the command newaliases.

You should then be able to send an e-mail to user2.

If you can't check /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log on hp1.hp.com (the machine sending the e-mail)for errors and check the ecentlog on your exchange server.

Regards,

Gary

[Fred Martin_1]

One thing I've discovered is that Outlook (without Exchange Server) can't send an email via sendmail that is unqualified, i.e. even though "fred" is local to the server you need to send the email via Outlook to "fred@mydomain.com" so that it can be delivered. Not sure if this is part of the issue here.

Our Outlook users have all created big address books so they don't have to always do all that typing.

Other mail clients such as Eudora have a setting for what domain to automatically add, if the user does not qualify the address (i.e. it is a local address).

If anybody knows how to do this with Outlook let me know, as we all POP into sendmail as well.