Sendmail

[Henrycoffin]

Hi Guys.

Is it possible to have sendmail collect messages and then pass them on to outlook express on a windows machine. If so how would i go about doing this.

[wreckd]

i'm sure someone has done this so...bump.

anyway -
i think you just run a pop3 daemon in addition to sendmail which hands off mail to the users....qpopper and cyrus come to mind. unfortunately, i haven't tried this myself....yet.

[bdg1983]

Google search and here's one of them.

One of the most prominent uses of networking
*** since the first networks were devised, has been
*** electronic mail. It started as a simple service
*** that copied a file from one machine to another,
*** and appended it to the recipient's mailbox file.
*** Basically, this is still what email is all about,
*** although an ever growing net with its complex
*** routing requirements and its ever-increasing load
*** of messages has made a more elaborate scheme
*** necessary.*
****
*** Unix and thereby Linux have `sendmail' as the
*** standard software package mail transfer agent.
*** One of the key features of sendmail is that it
*** converts the messages from different incompatible
*** networks using different protocols into suitable
*** forms instead of dropping them.*
*

*** Components of Mail Server

*** Mail Routers:*
*** Our mail router is sendmail.The Mail Routers are
*** also called Mail Transfer Agents (MTA).MTA is the
*** heart of mailing system.Besides sendmail, qmail
*** and smail are another secure MTA.VSNL uses
*** sendmail as its MTA while Hotmail uses qmail.MTA
*** is a very deep subject and a true Unix system
*** administrator must study it in detail.
*** Mail Delivery Agents:*
*** Our MTA (sendmail) is not the final delivery
*** agent.There are local mail delivery agents, which
*** the administrator can select.They actually
*** transfer mail to the mailbox.*
*** Mail Readers:*
*** This are packages such as mail, elm, pines, mutt,
*** Microsoft Outlook etc. and are selected by the
*** users according to their convenience.*

*** Mail Transfer Protocols:*

*** SMTP:*
*** Simple Mail Transport Protocol is the standard
*** protocol of transferring mail over the Internet.
*** It does not matter whether program-exchanging
*** mail is sendmail or any other client written for
*** any other platform. As long as both support SMTP,
*** they can exchange mail.DNS is very useful for
*** interaction of various clients exchanging mail.
*** When sendmail delivers mail, it must translate
*** the recipient?s host name to IP address. DNS
*** maintains information useful for the mail service
*** in it?s A (Address) and MX (Mail eXchanger)
*** records. They give information about the host?s
*** IP translation and the host/s willing to receive
*** mail for it respectively.*

*** POP:*
*** Since, Linux and other O.S.es view email in
*** different ways, the Post Office Protocol was
*** developed.*
*** Under this, anyone who runs a POP client can
*** communicate with a POP server on a
*** system-independent level.*
*

*** For our Intranet consisting of Windows client
*** with Linux box as the mail server, we will use
*** sendmail as the Mail Transport Agent (MTA) for
*** mail between Linux clients. For the Windows
*** clients we would configure a POP-3 (Pop Office
*** Protocol) Service, which would allow Windows
*** users to access the mail located on the POP
*** Server with mail clients such as Microsoft
*** Outlook.*
*** We also tried out some other mail clients on
*** Windows machine, like Eudora Lite, Outlook
*** Express and Pegasus Mail.Microsoft Outlook gave
*** the best results because it is designed to be a
*** multi-user mail client.Hats off to Microsoft for
*** this!*

*** The heart of the sendmail is the /etc/sendmail.cf
*** file. This is a rather cryptic file and we
*** therefore use the "linuxconf" tool to configure
*** this file. At the prompt, type linuxconf and
*** select the Mail Delivery System item. Provide the
*** domain name of the network i.e. nerf.edu, the
*** FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) of mail server
*** and of the mail gateway i.e. nit.nerf.edu.
*** After this, the sendmail.cf file corresponding to
*** the configuration will be generated automatically
*** when you exit from "linuxconf".

*** We are not listing our sendmail.cf file here
*** because it is too big (about 1400 lines) and we
*** have not even changed a single character in this
*** file.It is said that if you have configured
*** sendmail.cf using text editor i.e. by direct
*** editing, then you are a real Unix
*** administrator.We accept we are not. Atleast not
*** at this stage.*

*** Remember that for mail services to work properly,
*** DNS must have been configured.*
*

*** Configuring the POP Server

*** The POP server we configured was the IDS-3 POP
*** Server. Another one, which is freely available,
*** is the qpopper package from Berkeley.
*** We installed the server using the GNORPM tool
*** available under X-Windows from the RedHat
*** CD.After the installation, the server was started
*** using the command:*

*** /etc/rc.d/init.d/ids start*

*** To allow qpopper to start from inetd, edit the

*** /etc/inetd.conf and add the following line:*

*** pop-3streamtcpnowaitroot/usr/sbin/tcpdin.qpopper*

*** The configuration and installation of the server
*** can be checked by ?telnet?ing the server at the
*** standard port for the pop servers (port no. 110)
*** as follows:*

*** telnet nit.nerf.edu 110*

*** If the popserver greets you with a message and a
*** prompt then all is working well.*
*** Configuring the POP clients*
*** The Linux clients can use the mail with the mail
*** command or any other mail reader.*
*** The Windows clients can use the Microsoft Outlook
*** (not Outlook Express) client program to use the
*** mail service. Microsoft Mail services must be
*** installed with Microsoft Outlook.We installed
*** this service by selecting Tools>Services and then
*** added the Microsoft Mail Service.It will then
*** popup dialogs box for setting up your mail
*** account, your postbox address etc.Do not enter
*** anything here.Click on OK.Then from File menu,
*** Exit and Log off.*
*** When you restart the Microsoft Outlook package
*** you are asked for a user name (POP account), the
*** hostname of the machine running the POP Server
*** and the password for the POP account.Microsoft
*** Outlook will be running in background till you
*** exit and login as a different user i.e. Exit and
*** Log off.