[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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