mail being recived on system to be poped

[absi]

hi all
i have just configured sendmail on redhat7 for
sending and recieveing to/from exchange server.
It is correctly workin..........but now the problem
is that developers are designing a pop client and they
want that mail recieved by o/s users(through sendmail)
will be poped auto into that cleint when the user
logged into mail server.
i have also install pop and imapd but confusion on my part
now is that sendmail do not sending mails to users
which are created as pop users........pls help me
how can i do that....is there any way of communication
b/w sendmail and pop(same server).
Absi

 

[ifincham]

Hi,



The way they work together is that sendmail will store received mail in the linux system and local users can directly access this via Pine or similar client. A pop3 user is effectively asking the pop3 daemon to do the latter for them. pop3 is just a mail delivery agent and has got nothing to do with sending. For a remote user to use a client like outlook express you need to have both sendmail and ipop3 running on the linux machine. The client would configure their inbound mail server as the ip address of the linux box & protocol pop3 (port 110). Their logon/password would be the account on the linux box. The same users outbound connex would be specified again as the linux box protocol smtp (port 25).



On redhat, assuming sendmail is working, all you have to do is install the 'imap' package and then turn on the pop3 server with the command '/sbin/chkconfig ipop3 on'. Its very similar with imap.



I can't think of any obvious reason sendmail wouldn't send mail to what you call 'pop users' - how have these users been set up ? Have any of them got aliases in /etc/aliases ?



Rgds