On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, S.Toms wrote:
I have two questions, one is for my personal benefit the other is for a system I'm setting up for work. The first is, what in your opinions is the best way to make a linux box running pine and a windows box running whatever to share the same mail folders for particular users? My guess would be imap, but I'm wondering what others may think.
Assuming you are using Linux as the mail server, and it is protected by a firewall, Pine has a nice pop3 server built in. I do not know anything about imap, except it seems like a security risk. To activate the pop3 server, uncomment the line pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3 in /etc/inetd.conf. Comment out the other lines referring to pop2 and popper-s. The users will have to have accounts (with passwords of course) on the mail server. If the windows boxes are running Netscape you can set them up in the preferences to log into the mail server. I'm not sure about IE or Outlook (sorry, I don't use them for security reasons). Be careful with the settings in Netscapes mail thingy!! Turn OFF the flag that deletes the mail on the server when it downloads it. Otherwise, all the users mail will disappear from (be sucked off) the Linux box when you are setting it up and testing it. This is set by default in Netscape, so look out for it. This may be what you want, but be aware of it. You cannot read the mail from the mail server box if you have previously deleted it. Don't laugh.. I did it, and then spent a while figuring out where my mail went :) Hope that helps.. With kind regards, -- 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