I assume that you have some means for getting mail into the box that is
running the POP3 server; if not then you will need to resolve this first.
The POP3 server allows a MUA (mail user agent, or mail client, or mail
reader) to pull the mail off the POP3 machine into the local mail client.
Now these two could be on the same machine in which case the machine is
called "localhost", or they could be on different machines.
If the POP3 server and the mail client are on the same machine then you
could test the POP3 server with:
telnet localhost pop-3
This should give you something like:
[root@keep /root]# telnet localhost pop-3
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK POP3 localhost v7.59 server ready
This tells you that your POP3 server is running OK. Just type "quit" to
break the connection:
quit
+OK Sayonara
Connection closed by foreign host.
[root@keep /root]#
If you are linking from one machine to another then replace "localhost"
with the name of the server machine.
What you now need to do is set the mail client on your work machine (as I
said earlier this could be the same as the server machine) to point to the
POP3 server machine in the config for the mail client. It matters not
what OS the work machine is running.
Sending mail out is a different thing. Here it depends whether you are
running a SMTP server on the work machine or whether you will be using the
SMTP that is probably also running on the POP3 machine. Sendmail is the
normal SMTP server with Linux and you may have problems getting mail to go
out because of the default relay blocking in the current sendmail config.
Looking at www.sendmail.org should give you some pointers in this regard.
HTH,
Howard.
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On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Peter Vogel wrote:
> I'm a newbie looking for information about using the POP3 server on
> Redhat 5.2. I can't find anything in the 4 books I have, or in the Linux
> howtos.
>
> Can someone direct me to some basic information on how to set up and use
> POP3? It seems to be running on my linux machine in some default
> condition, but I don;t know what to do now.
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter
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