Thanks for the answer.
I've done what you have told in your former message and now it works fine.
the only problem was that pop3d was not running on the machine. Now i can
fetch and send mail using Outlook98 on WinXX machines.
We connect to the Linux box by LAN.
My last question is: now that everything is running fine, I have to make
changes to DNS so that other machines know that the Linux box is the mail
server. But my boss is kind of itchy and I would like for a first step to
have 2 mail servers for our domain: the NT box and the Linux. Is this
configuration possible ?
We are connected to our ISP by a Netopia ISDN router that handles
Dial-on-Demand.
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]De la part de Ray Olszewski
> Date: mardi 12 janvier 1999 04:30
> �: Eric Diwouta-Loth; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Objet: RE: Linux Mail/internet server setup
>
>
> At 02:51 PM 1/11/99 +0100, Eric Diwouta-Loth wrote:
> >Can I use Pop3d whith Sendmail as MTA ?
> >I've created the configuration you explained in your reply, and
> all my users
> >can look at their mail using telnet and Pine.
> >But I didn't succeed in configuring mail client on their Zindozs machine.
> >When they try to download their mail, they get connected, and
> the Linux box
> >shuts down the connection.
> [rest deleted]
>
> Yes, you can. ISPs (including mine) do it all the time. As to
> your problem,
> again you don't really say enough to let me make any intelligent
> suggestions. So, here are a few things to consider:
>
> 1. On the Linux box, what do the logs say about attempted pop3
> connections?
> One complete set of entries for an unsuccessful attempt might be
> illuminating.
>
> 2. How are the clients connecting to the Linux server? An Ethernet? PPP to
> the server or its LAN? A connection elsewhere that gives access to it over
> the Internet? (I assume that whatever method they are using, it
> is the same
> for the successful shell connections and the unsuccessful pop3 ones -- but
> if not, please correct me.)
>
> 3. Related to #2, what do you mean by "shuts down the connection"? What
> message does the WinXX client actually display?
>
> 4. On the WinXX clients, what mail client are you using? I only
> know Eudora
> Pro on WIn95, so if you need help with a different client, you'll need to
> wait for a response from someone else.
>
> I'm assuming you've done what I suggested in my earlier message,
> so I'm not
> repeating here advice about setting up inetd.conf and the like.
>
> Hope this gets you started. Good luck.
>
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