You can setup a POP server or an IMAP server for incoming mail. With POP servers, the e-mail is pulled by the client machines to themselves. Works fine as long as users always read their mail at the same machine. With an IMAP server, the e-mail stays on the server until deleted. Clients view the mail on the IMAP server, but do not store it. Works well when users want to read their mail at several different machines. For outgoing, you probably already have an SMTP server, e.g. Sendmail, Qmail, Postfix. Just change the clients to point to it as their outgoing/SMTP server. You may have to enable relaying, depending on which server you use. HTH, Jeffrey Quoting Donald G. Knecht <msspal@gbso.net>:

well here's something i haven't done before, maybe you have and can give me a clue....... i have a linux box, (SuSE 7.0) on my desk and i want to run fetchmail periodically, ( a few times a day), and then allow the other machines to pull thier email from the linux box.....the "other" machines are M$ boxes and view mail from internet exploder or nutscrape, so do i need a pop server on the linux box? the other side of the coin is outgoing mail.....which works for the accounts i have set up on the linux box, but i'm a little fuzzy on how the windows boxes would relay through the linux box......

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