sendmail configuration on redhat 2003-01-17 - By Jason Dale
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Hi Jim
For my own clarification , is there a difference between Handling POP3 and
SMTP
requests , and actually BEING a POP3 / SMTP server ?
The reason I ask is that I have a whole bunch of Windows machines all
connected to my Red Hat linux mail server running sendmail , and in the
Outlook
express account settings , I have the incoming mail ( POP3 ) and outgoing
mail
( SMTP ) all pointing to the IP address of my mail server. If sendmail is
not
a POP server , how does it handle the incoming mail ?
Yup , I would also recommend Exim as an easier and better alternative to
sendmail.
( Despite the fact that I personally could not get the Exim 4 to work on my
machine
from a source compilation )
Regards , Jason Dale
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: "James P. Roberts" <punster@(protected)>
To: <seawolf-list@(protected)>
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: sendmail configuration on redhat
> > As you can imagine i have installed fully RH 7.1 and wanted to
> configure sendmail to act as full email server, which means SMTP and
> Pop3 server altogether in the same machine (if that is possible)
> Sendmail is already installed there, but it seems to work only for the
> local machine. I do not want to compile again the whole sendmail.cf file
> since it is a huge work . Is there any place where i can find some
> information just how to modify sendmail.cf file in order to accomplish
> what i need (or at least to find a sendmail.mc file).
> >
> > I have read the Howto's on redhat site about sendmail but it doesn't
> include something of how to implement everything in one machine.
> >
> > is it ok that i have installed all the packages of Redhat to make
> possible for Sendmail to run or do i have to install redhat only as a
> server ?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Genti
>
> My recommendation would be to uninstall Sendmail, and install something
> easier to use, faster, newer, and well-supported, such as Exim. Just my
> personal preference.
>
> RedHat has an rpm for the older 3.x series of Exim. There are also a
> number of people who have built rpm's for the new 4.x series. I do
> recommend the 4.x series, because it is even easier and more flexible to
> use. See www.exim.org for more details. But DO NOT try to run both
> Sendmail and Exim on the same machine. (There is no need to do so,
> anyway.)
>
> As far as I know, neither Sendmail nor Exim handles POP3, because they
> are SMTP servers, not POP servers. But RedHat provides a decent POP3
> service. (Take a peak at /etc/xinetd.d and see if there's anything like
> ipop3d in there. If so, just enable it. "cat" the file (it is small)
> and it should be obvious what edit is required. Then restart xinetd.)
> Yes, you can absolutely run both servers on the same machine. In fact,
> I think it would be easiest to do so; otherwise you'd have to configure
> one or the other to push or pull emails between the two machines.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
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