Rahul, I don't know much about configuring mail (I didn't have to change much for sendmail to work for me), but here are my two cents:
> i have also made a file .fetchmailrc in /root ##this is what i have read and is for >fetching mails but is this correct??i doubt. Fetchmail is for downloading the mail from a POP (or IMAP, etc) server, and feeding it through an SMTP server to your users. Does your SMTP server (sendmail) deliver the mail to boxes which are readable by your windows clients? SMTP is a "push" protocol, meaning that it sends messages when it gets them, and doesn't store them like POP or IMAP which are "pull" protocols. It has to deliver to a local mailbox (or another mail server...). If I were in your shoes, I would probably set sendmail up so that your users can use it for outgoing mail, and then run a POP server as well for incoming mail. If you download everyone's mail from a POP server (as it appears you do since you are using fetchmail), you could use fetchmail to get the mail from the remote POP server, and send it to the local POP server. > please do give the more changes i need to make and to correct the existing files so >that i can run mailserver and access mails on windows clients. > Any good references regarding configuring mail server for newbies like me. An excellent source of info on all things network related under Linux is the Network Administrator's Guide (NAG). You can download it from http://linuxdoc.org/guides.html or read it online at http://linuxdoc.org/LDP/nag2/index.html. I have used it extensively in setting up my home LAN. You might also check out the Mail-Administrator-HOWTO at http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Mail-Administrator-HOWTO.html. It also contains a whole bunch of useful info. Of course, http://www.sendmail.org is a good place to look for sendmail documentation. If you installed the sendmail-doc package, you should have the Operator's Guide in /usr/share/doc/sendmail/doc/op/op.ps. (You can use gv to view Postscript docs under X.) > And also how can i access mails in linux .utility like outlook Express?? My favorite MUA is Mutt (invoke as mutt). It is fast, small, user-friendly, configurable, good to use over slow modem links, text-based (so you don't have to load X to read your mail), and powerful (you can set it up to launch external programs to view MIME types like HTML and verify/sign/encrypt messages with gpg/pgp to name two features I use). Of course, there are many others both text-based and X-based. If you are interested in an X-based client, you might look at exmh. I have my Mom and sister set up with Balsa (http://www.balsa.org). I use fetchmail to download my mail from my provider's POP server. It sends the mail to procmail which filters the mail into different boxes. Hope this helps, Ben -- Ben Logan: ben at wblogan dot net OpenPGP Key KeyID: A1ADD1F0 There are three ways to get something done: (1) Do it yourself. (2) Hire someone to do it for you. (3) Forbid your kids to do it. _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
