mail help

[Big_Jeff Stud]

I'm going to install sendmail and a pop3 server. On RH 7.1, what is the RPM for the pop3 server? Is it popt-1.6.2-8.i386.rpm?


Thanks in advance,

Jeff

[cabu1966]

popt is for C programming, what you want is imap-2000-9.i386.rpm.
A couple of things I found when we set this up at work

1. Straight from redhat "By default, sendmail does not accept network connections from any host other than the local computer. If you want to configure sendmail as a server for other clients, please edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and change DAEMON_OPTIONS to also listen on network devices, or comment out this option all together. You will need to regenerate /etc/sendmail.cf by running:

m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf

You must have the sendmail-cf package installed for this to work"

2. If you plan to mail outside of your own network (who wouldn't), you need to create a file called /etc/mail/relay-domains. You need to add the fully-qualified host name and/or IP address of each client to /etc/mail/relay-domains. Once you've created the file, restart sendmail.

[ 24 June 2001: Message edited by: cabu1966 ]