Thanks Jerry.

Between your and Jerry K's replies I think I have all the information I need now.

Bye

Liam






>>Being very new to Linux I'd appreciate a little assistance with Sendmail.
>
>> I've got to the point where I've got Linux set up as a File, WWW & FTP server, however I'm stuck on setting up sendmail.
>
>> I'm able to send mail from my W95 PC to users on the Linux box but I can't figure out how to retrieve mail from the Linux
>> box using my W95 PC. (I'm trying to set up a mail server for my office).
>
>There are two different ways that your Linux box can be used to get mail.
>1) Linux box is on constantly and gets mail sent directly to it from the senders out there on the Internet.
>2) Linux box is not on all the time (e.g. dialup connection to Internet); Linux box downloads email from the
>mailbox on the ISP's machine.
>
>In both cases, PC's can still be used to read mail that may have gotten to the Linux box. However, there is
>a bit of differences in the setup. In model #1, the PC's reading mail has nothing to do with sendmail on the
>Linux box. It involves a mail service daemon such as imap or pop (unless of course you telnet in an use
>pine or mail or mailx to read mail directly from the Linux box, not using a GUI program on your PC).
>
>Model #2 also involves running an IMAP or POP server on the Linux box, but it requires additional
>CLIENT program setup on the Linux box (mail client such as fetchmail to go out to the mailbox on the ISP's
>mail server, retrieve the mail to the LInux box, so that your favorite mail reader can be used from the PC to
>read via IMAP or POP service.
>
>Reading mail from a Linux box is different that worrying about the Linux box sending and receiving mail,
>which is what sendmail does.
>
>You want to look at mail SERVICE to the PC's. That is you want to look at HOWTO provide
>IMAP or POP mail service to a PC package such as Eudora or Outlook Express or Netscape Mail or Mulberry
>In this model, the mail server is the box that sends and receives mail to/from the Internet (stays on all the time),
>while the PC's are clients and go out and retrieve the mail from your mailbox on the mail server.
>
>Now, you can even read mail on the Linux box itself by using telnet to connect to the Linux box, log in,
>run a program called pine (if you've installed it) or mail or mailx (again depending on what you've installed).
>Pine, mail and mailx are all keyboard-oriented mail readers, while eurora, outlook express, mulberry, netscape
>are all GUI (mouse) interfaces.
>
>Being able to telnet into the Linux box from some remote site and still read email can be a big help when you're
>sitting at a machine that is not set up with your favorite GUI mail reader configured to read from your mail server.
>
>(Of course there is also now a web mail client program called imp from horde.org that lets you do Hotmail or
>Yahoo style email - users can read using a web interface. You run a web server (httpd) on your machine
>in addition to sendmail and you can use a web browser to read mail that's in your mail box on the Linux machine.
>(imapd service required).
>
>
>Unless you have a really complicated connections, etc, a basic sendmail installation should work out of the box
>in general. You do have to start it up if it's not yet (ps aux | grep sendmail to check to see if it's running) -
>run linuxconf under RedHat to restart it or /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start or even /sbin/sendmail & to start it
>"by hand". If you're having problems, be sure to check /var/log/messages and let people know.
>
>However, What you more probably need to read about are the mail SERVICE daemons: imapd or popd.
>Go to the HOWTO's at metalab.unc.edu (home of the Linux documentation project online docs) or perhaps in
>some of the URL's the Jerry K suggested.
>
>-Jerry Winegarden