Hi Jim For my own clarification , is there a difference between Handling POP3 and SMTP requests , and actually BEING a POP3 / SMTP server ?
The reason I ask is that I have a whole bunch of Windows machines all connected to my Red Hat linux mail server running sendmail , and in the Outlook express account settings , I have the incoming mail ( POP3 ) and outgoing mail ( SMTP ) all pointing to the IP address of my mail server. If sendmail is not a POP server , how does it handle the incoming mail ? Yup , I would also recommend Exim as an easier and better alternative to sendmail. ( Despite the fact that I personally could not get the Exim 4 to work on my machine from a source compilation ) Regards , Jason Dale ----- Original Message ----- From: "James P. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 7:52 PM Subject: Re: sendmail configuration on redhat > > As you can imagine i have installed fully RH 7.1 and wanted to > configure sendmail to act as full email server, which means SMTP and > Pop3 server altogether in the same machine (if that is possible) > Sendmail is already installed there, but it seems to work only for the > local machine. I do not want to compile again the whole sendmail.cf file > since it is a huge work . Is there any place where i can find some > information just how to modify sendmail.cf file in order to accomplish > what i need (or at least to find a sendmail.mc file). > > > > I have read the Howto's on redhat site about sendmail but it doesn't > include something of how to implement everything in one machine. > > > > is it ok that i have installed all the packages of Redhat to make > possible for Sendmail to run or do i have to install redhat only as a > server ? > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Genti > > My recommendation would be to uninstall Sendmail, and install something > easier to use, faster, newer, and well-supported, such as Exim. Just my > personal preference. > > RedHat has an rpm for the older 3.x series of Exim. There are also a > number of people who have built rpm's for the new 4.x series. I do > recommend the 4.x series, because it is even easier and more flexible to > use. See www.exim.org for more details. But DO NOT try to run both > Sendmail and Exim on the same machine. (There is no need to do so, > anyway.) > > As far as I know, neither Sendmail nor Exim handles POP3, because they > are SMTP servers, not POP servers. But RedHat provides a decent POP3 > service. (Take a peak at /etc/xinetd.d and see if there's anything like > ipop3d in there. If so, just enable it. "cat" the file (it is small) > and it should be obvious what edit is required. Then restart xinetd.) > Yes, you can absolutely run both servers on the same machine. In fact, > I think it would be easiest to do so; otherwise you'd have to configure > one or the other to push or pull emails between the two machines. > > Jim > > > > _______________________________________________ > Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
