On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 14:17, R. Scott Belford wrote: > On Wednesday 25 September 2002 12:37 pm, Rodney Kanno wrote: > > I have a linux machine with sendmail installed on a windws NT network. If > > I have a johndoe user account on the linux box, is there a way to check > > mail for that account on a windows machine using outlook express or some > > other email program? If so, where can I find information /guidance on how > > to do this? > > You can set up a pop account in outlook, and simply use the ip address of the > linux box. If you want to use the hostname of the linux box, and this is a > private hostname, then you can add the name to the lmhosts file in your NT > root directory. You can have your linux box be a dns server as well. A > similar question was recently asked and Ray had a good suggestion for doing > this.
May I highly recommend using IMAP rather than POP. Your mail will be synchronized at all times instead of downloading messages all the time.
