[ILUG] newbie: email server Q

[Raymond A Kelly]

Kenn Humborg wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:15:49PM +0000, Dermot Gorman wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I installed donncha's sendmail/fetchmail configuration utility and
> > proceeded to dial up and everything went fine, all email was downloaded
> > and could be read using pine.
> > My Q is what how can I configure netscape to download the mail from my
> > local linux box into the netscape app.? This is probably incredible
> > simple but i can't figure out what the mail servers name should be in
> > the preferences box.
> > My /etc/hosts file is:
> > 127.0.0.1       p133.redhat        localhost
> 
> Install the imap RPM.  You shouldn't have to do anything else
> to configure it.

except perhaps uncomment one of the following lines from /etc/inetd.conf

#pop-3   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  ipop3d
imap    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  imapd

Imap tends to be turned off by default on Redhat, but pop will work
outta the box

If you're feeling realy lazy & don't want to do this at all you can just
use Netscape's Movemail fanjango
it's one of the server types along with pop & imap which you can select
from within your mail preferences.
Having said that Kenn's Suggestion is probably better as you will have
the  advantage of "better" logs if something screws up. yada yada yada 

	Ray ...

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