Re: How to receive mail under WIN95 from another Debian PC ?

[servis@purdue.edu]

Michael, 

I would leave all the mail spool on PC2 and run qpopper on it. Then just
run a pop3 client on PC1 to get the mail from PC2.  

In my inetd.conf I have

pop-3           stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/sbin/in.qpopper

I do recall having to edit this, maybe that is a bug in qpoppers
post.inst scripts.

Then just give the users of PC1 accounts on PC2.  They don't even have
to have shells or home directories to just login for POP retrieval.

Use PC2 as your outgoing mail server for PC1.  You don't really need an
mta(i.e. smail) on PC1.  There are several mail readers that will just
interact with a mail server and don't require a local mta.  They will
send the ougoing mail on the smtp port for the mail server to deal
with.  The two that I am familiar with are are netscape (both linux &
win95) and tkrat (linux).  There are most likely others.

Have fun,

-- 
Brian 
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*- Michael Grimm wrote about "How to receive mail under WIN95 from another Debian PC ?"
| Hi -
| 
| My little private network looks as follows:
| 
|    PC1 (WIN95,Linux)  <--->  PC2 (Linux)     <---->  ISP
|    Dual boot option          INN, SMAIL       ISDN
| 
| I don't have problems with ISP connectivity; masquerading and
| forwarding is done by PC2; everything's working fine, so far.
| 
| I have installed a news server on PC2 (INN) and mail is handled by
| SMAIL on PC2 as well. Both are polled and fed using UUCP between
| PC2 and my ISP. I can read and post news under WIN95 and Linux
| on PC1. 
| 
| But I do need some advice from you: how should I setup mail on
| PC1 under WIN95 and Linux ?
| 
| - PC1/Linux should be done by SMAIL as well, right ?
|   Forwarding from PC1 to PC2 ? 
|   Right now mail is sorted into /var/spool/mail on PC2 for 
|   different users, so I could mount /var/spool/mail on PC1
|   using NFS. Is this recommended ?
| 
| - PC1/WIN95 should be done by POP3, right ?
|   Does SMAIL handle the POP3 protocol as well ?
|   If not, what package do you recommend ? qpopper ?
| 
| I looked into qpopper and installed it, but I really don't know how
| the setup is done. In inetd.conf there is a line for POP3:
| 
|   pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.pop3d
| 
| I don't have a in.pop3d, but a in.qpopper instead. Should I change 
| this, and is that all ?
| 
| Thanks and with regards,
| 
| Michael
|