Gerry Doris wrote:
> I am accessing my isp's mail server via a Win98 system running wingate proxy
> server software. I can't figger out how to setup sendmail to properly
> send/receive mail.
>
> I've been using xfmail and netscape mail and that works fine using the
> following settings:
>
> smpt
> mail server name: wingate (name of the proxy machine)
> pop account name: user_name#isp_mail_server_name (# format needed for proxy)
>
> Is there a way to get sendmail to work through the proxy???
At the risk of sounding a bit harsh - you're doing this all wrong!
Set your Linux box up as the server/gateway and your Windows box as the client.
Windows 9x was never meant to be a server platform, while Linux has always been
just that. Windows doesn't multitask very well, performs very poorly as a
router, has limited support for various essential server/gateway software, even
more limited freeware (unless you've bought a licence for Wingate I'll bet you
have a limited run-time demo which will expire in a month anyway). And so on and
so on.
You need to install IP Masquerading and firewalling on the Linux machine to do
(better) what you are currently attempting with Wingate. This may require a
kernel reconfiguration and recompilation. While you are at it you can set the
compile as router option for better performance.
As regards mail: on the Linux machine, set up imapd (just uncomment the relevant
line in /etc/inetd.conf and do killall -HUP inetd) and set up Outlook on the
Win98 client to point to an IMAP server on your Linux machine. You may need to
run a mail delivery agent (like procmail or fetchmail) to deliver mail from the
mail spool directory into your remote inbox.
That way you can access your mail from either the Linux machine or the Windows
machine. Moreover, imapd runs straight out of the box - there is no
configuration to do.
Use ~/Mail as your remote mail directory and ~/mbox as your remote inbox. Using
this method you can use
Netscape Messenger, pine and bog-standard 'mail' as mail clients on the Linux
machine.
If you try to continue with Win98 as the gateway, not only are you using an
inferior method but you are also wasting your time - the experience won't be of
much use to you in the future as hardly anyone else would try to do it that way.
On the other hand if you follow the route I suggest, you'll be doing the same as
a lot of people on this list (and on other lists too) and you won't be short of
technical help.
Good luck
Ralph
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