On Thursday 20 December 2001 12:43 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the response for the samba question...all is now ok. > > My mail is recieved from my isp using fetchmail and mail is sent via > sendmail. This is ok from the mdk boxes where the /var/spool/mail is NFS > mounted, but I have a couple of Winbloze boxes where the user wants to use > Outlook to check the mail What is the best way to tackle this task. The > user does have a Linux account/mail file. > > Checking on the web, there are lots of smtp and pop3 servers, but am I > trying to use a sledge hammer to crack a nut? > > Any guidance would be great. > > TIA > Dave. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://mail2web.com/ .
At the northwest arctic borough, I had users getting mail through postfix and sending it the same way--smtp to the gateway hostname. Some were using windows and their usernames were just usernames defined on the gateway/pop server host, with the email password the same as the password defined on the gateway host. With windows it was non-yrivial to change an email account, because it had to nbe manually mirrored on the server. With linux, once we had converted everyone, I used NIS network-wide so any changes were immediately known to the POP/SMTP daemons of postfix. THere is qmail as well which provides no significant advantage over postfix except it is compatible with some webmail stuff, and there is sendmail. No one is a system administrator until he has configured sendmail once, and anyone who wants to do it twice is crazy. Other than that--sheesh you can set up imap and run it as well. It is all on the Mandrake CDs. Civileme
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