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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.


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St Andrews Road, Malvern
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