Re: Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

2001-08-09 Thread Dave Sill
"Jean-Christian Imbeault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[Mike Hodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote] > >>Another great resource is 'Life With Qmail' at www.lifewithqmail.org. > >Got that already. But as I found out it's Linux-centric. I'll be installing >on OpenBSD and worse for me is that I don't kno

Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

2001-08-08 Thread Charles Cazabon
Jean-Christian Imbeault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But after installing both the OS and qmail and going through the install > procedure it then hits me, is qmail the right tool? (shows how much I knew > before starting). > > Our office uses Windows and MS Outlook. Can Outlook work with qma

Re: Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

2001-08-08 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 02:22:15AM -0500, Robin S. Socha wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:59:06AM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: [snip] > > The manpages do install themselves automatically. You just have to > > tell man to check /var/qmail/man as well. (The way to do this is > > OS-dependent). >

Re: Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

2001-08-08 Thread Henning Brauer
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 07:43:43AM +, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote: > >From: "Robin S. Socha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I beg to differ. OpenBSD is quite fine (DJB himself certainly does >not use > >it for no good reason, eh?) and it has everything you need as > >ports and packages. > No ports

Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

2001-08-08 Thread Henning Brauer
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 05:58:53AM +, Robert Sander wrote: > On 8 Aug 2001 07:01:31 +0200, > Jean-Christian Imbeault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Our office uses Windows and MS Outlook. Can Outlook work with qmail? Can > > users just POP or IMAP off of qmail? Do I need another piece of sof

Re: Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

2001-08-08 Thread Robin S. Socha
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 07:43:43AM +, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote: > >From: "Robin S. Socha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Are you sure you want to run a server? > I know what you are saying but uou have to start somewhere and learn > somehow On a production system? Did you bring a Ferrari to yo

Re: Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

2001-08-08 Thread Jean-Christian Imbeault
>From: "Robin S. Socha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Are you sure you want to run a server? I know what you are saying but uou have to start somewhere and learn somehow ... >I beg to differ. OpenBSD is quite fine (DJB himself certainly does >not use >it for no good reason, eh?) and it has everything

Re: Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

2001-08-07 Thread Robin S. Socha
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:59:06AM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 06:52:29AM +, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote: > > [...] the man pages didn't install themselves automagically when I > > compiled the source. (Yes, I don't even know how to install man pages). Are you s

Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

2001-08-07 Thread Brett Randall
> On Wed, 08 Aug 2001 06:52:29 +, "Jean-Christian Imbeault" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I'll have a look right away. But first I have to make sure I > actually installed qmail properly. You should find that the tests in qmail-1.03/INSTALL should pretty much show if qmail is working

Re: Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

2001-08-07 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 06:52:29AM +, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote: [snip] > I know. I took my chances and posted anyway. And I *did* read the FAQ, it's > pretty slim and the man pages didn't install themselves automagically when I > compiled the source. (Yes, I don't even know how to insta

Re: Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

2001-08-07 Thread Jean-Christian Imbeault
[Mike Hodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote] >You most definately can use qmail for this. Great! >Let me be honest with you though.. There are some tough cookies on >the >qmail list who may and probably will flame you for asking this >question, >and only answer you by reciting 'read this faq' or

Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

2001-08-07 Thread Robert Sander
On 8 Aug 2001 07:01:31 +0200, Jean-Christian Imbeault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our office uses Windows and MS Outlook. Can Outlook work with qmail? Can > users just POP or IMAP off of qmail? Do I need another piece of software to > link the two? Let me answer this question quickly before R

Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

2001-08-07 Thread Jean-Christian Imbeault
First off please excuse the obviously-I-have-no-knowledge level of this question. I have been charged with installing a mail server at our office. Luckily for me I know absolutely nothing about mail servers. I've decided to go with OpenBSD 2.9 and qmail 1.03. But after installing both the OS