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Quote:> I am looking to set up (on the main Linux server) some sort of
> SMTP/POP3 server.  The basic idea is that the server would receive
> incoming email via SMTP from another local machine and store the mail
> for collection by individual users using their own email clients and
> accessing using POP3 protocol.

It's quite possible that you're only dependent on getting your SMTP/user
config right, so that the mail gets held in the right mailboxes on the
server.
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For a simple setup (SMTP doesn't need to do any funny stuff), going
with the default setup from the distribution should be fine.

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: I run a small network of five computers here.  Some run Linux and some
: Win 95.  All are set up with network cards and run TCP/IP over the
: LAN.

: I am looking to set up (on the main Linux server) some sort of
: SMTP/POP3 server.  The basic idea is that the server would receive
: incoming email via SMTP from another local machine and store the mail
: for collection by individual users using their own email clients and
: accessing using POP3 protocol.

: Can anyone suggest what software would be suitable for use on the
: Linux system ?

Very likely, you _already have_ both SMTP and POP3 daemons installed
and running.

Try this from your Linux's command line:

telnet localhost 25

You'll probably get something like this:

   Trying 127.0.0.1...
   Connected to localhost.
   Escape character is '^]'.
   220 hugin.imat.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.4/8.8.4; Sat, 4 Oct 1997
      00:05:13 -0700

Port 25 is the SMTP TCP port:  By telnetting into it, you are speaking
directly to the sendmail program (or equivalent) that handles SMTP
mail on your machine.  Type "quit" to close the port.

Then, try this:

telnet localhost 110

You'll probably see something like this:

   Trying 127.0.0.1...
   Connected to localhost.
   Escape character is '^]'.
   +OK hugin.imat.com POP3 3.3(20) w/IMAP2 client (Comments to

This is the POP3 daemon, reached by telnetting directly to the POP3
port, TCP port 110.  Type "quit" again to close the port.

Any Linux distribution I can think of will come with SMTP and POP3
daemons installed and operational by default.

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