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Networking, Installation and Administration issues
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>>>>>I currently have Sendmail installed and its working well. I have found outside clients (Outlook, netscape, ect.) can send but not recieve email. I looked it up and found that I need to install POP3 software.
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>>>>>I am running Mandrake 7.2 and I cant find this software. I am also not sure if I have to get a certain make because I am using sendmail.
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>>>>>If anybody can point me in the right direction on where to find this software I would be gratefull.
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>>>>>Thanks
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>>>>I've used qmail as my POP3 server in the past. I believe the link is www.qmail.org , but you probably already have something easier to use that came with Mandrake. Mandrake 8 came with an RPM Software Manager that will allow you to easily install the packages that shipped with it. Hopefully, you have the same utility in 7.2.
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>>>SuSE has Yast2, which is their system config tool and graphical app installer. It works great. I run the KDE desktop and part of it is an app called KMail, which includes sendmail and SMTP with the POP3 protocol. Setting it up is just a series of clicks and filling in account info.
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>>Cool. I assumed KMail was just an email client.
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>That's correct, but all commerical Linux distros that I've used include the POP3 protocol without the need to download an RPM copy. Unless, of course, you were upgrading...:)
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>How do you like Mandrake now that you've played with it a while?

BTW, was it you asking where to get the pop3 protocol? If so,
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/Distribs.html should contain the necessary info.
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