On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Paul Evans wrote:
Hi
I would like to try and set up an email server on my linux box for the 3 windows machines that masquerade behind it. I have had a small amount of success with sendmail and I can now telnet into linux and download my email from my isp using fetchmail. These emails however still remain on the linux box.
What I don't understand is how you direct the windows email program (outlook) to the linux server.
Pinging under dos will only work if I give the ip number of the linux box, giving the server name receives the message "unknown host" despite the fact that I have added the linux box to the hosts file in windows.
If anyone could just point me in the right direction I would be very grateful.
Start by making sure that you have installed either a POP3 server or an IMAP server. Outlook will connect to one of these to collect mail. If it is for the local network only, I would suggest IMAP, because it lets the mail stay at the linux machine, so you can read it there if someone else is using your windows box. Secondly tell Outlook to connect to your linux box for both incoming and outgoing mail. (Also tell it which of POP3 or IMAP should be used.) You probably need to do something to Sendmail to allow the Windows box to send outgoing mail. Some of the other helpful people on this list will be able to help you with this. If the Windows box complains about "unknown host", we need to know which host file you added the linux box to, as well as your IP numbers and net masks. Regards Ole -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq