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> At 02:32 PM 3/4/2003 +0000, you wrote: > >What I am puzzled about is the mail server. I have not used one myself and > >do not know if any of them, qmail, sendmail etc can talk to outlook or > >messenger.I have not seen the setup they have so am relying on the guy > >having given me the correct information at this stage. They would be happy > >for me to set up a new PC to do this job and I am keen to have a go. As > >far as I know this will be the first one in my area and want to encourage > >the use of Linux. > >Any ideas? > > Norm- > > Outlook and Messenger have POP3 capability so you would need: 1)An email > server 2)A pop3 server. > > You can use sendmail, postfix, qmail, exim, whatever you want for email. I > am migrating from Sendmail > to Postfix. One word of caution - an email server needs careful planning > and you need to make yourself > familiar with setup and security. While Postfix is pretty secure by > default one wrong setting and the spam > world can use your system to get their messages out. So take the time to > review the docs and spend some > time getting comfortable with one email server. > > -Scott http://www.mrw.demon.co.uk has a detailed how-to for installing qmail and qmail-pop3d on mandrake (Vince Danen maintains qmail packages for mandrake) qmail + qmail-pop3d works just fine with windows mail clients. There is also a qmail mandrakesecure mailing list if you are so inclined. Mark. - -- Mark Watts Systems Engineer QinetiQ TIM St Andrews Road, Malvern GPG Public Key available on request. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ZLzmBn4EFUVUIO0RAmvXAKDcPrNcyPzx7by2R6ekhqi4U5GjUgCfSkzB dPrkWJpkfSD6HgBU8l6yLBo= =kzaT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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