[luau] sendmail question
Warren Togami
warren at togami.com
Wed Sep 25 17:05:00 PDT 2002
On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 14:17, R. Scott Belford wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 September 2002 12:37 pm, Rodney Kanno wrote:
> > I have a linux machine with sendmail installed on a windws NT network. If
> > I have a johndoe user account on the linux box, is there a way to check
> > mail for that account on a windows machine using outlook express or some
> > other email program? If so, where can I find information /guidance on how
> > to do this?
>
> You can set up a pop account in outlook, and simply use the ip address of the
> linux box. If you want to use the hostname of the linux box, and this is a
> private hostname, then you can add the name to the lmhosts file in your NT
> root directory. You can have your linux box be a dns server as well. A
> similar question was recently asked and Ray had a good suggestion for doing
> this.
May I highly recommend using IMAP rather than POP. Your mail will be
synchronized at all times instead of downloading messages all the time.
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