Sending and receiving mail in linux

[drumil narayan]

--- Kostas Sfakiotakis <kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr>
wrote:

> Greetings Drumil ,
> 
> drumil narayan wrote:
> > Hello Ajay,
> > 
> > Can you share me, how to send and receive mail
> from
> > linux to others. 
> 
> You can send an email with an MTA ( Mail Transfer
> Agent ) .
> Fedora Core 1 ( i currenlty use 1 probably the next
> releases
> use the same ) has sendmail and postfix . Pick
> either of them or
> any other you wish .  Now in order to be able to
> receive email
> then you need a programm that will "download" the
> emails from the
> POP3 Server of your ISP . An example for that would
> be fetchmail ?
> 
> 
> how to do send using proxy
> 
> Are you using a proxy server ?
> 
> and how to
> > send using ip (isp has given some ips, i will be
> using
> > that).
> 
> 
> Well as i remember from my isp , he hasn't given me
> any ips that could help me send emails .
> The IPs i was originally given were the 2 DNS
> Servers that
> i would have to use . For the emails he has given me
> an alias of the SMTP server and another one for the
> POP3 Server .
> The SMTP Server is the one that sends emails ,
> whereas the POP3 Server
> is the one that helps you fetch emails .
> 
> > 
> > at this moment I have to configure only five email
> > accounts for our development head, Sr DBA and for
> > three other DBAs.
> 
> Well am afraid you are not quite specific here . Do
> you wish to
> configure email for a network or for one computer
> only ?
> 
> Do you have a static ip ( an ip that remains the
> same ) or a
> dynamic ip ( one that changes everytime you try to
> connect to the 
> internet ) ?
> 
> 
> > 
> > its very urgent for me..thanx in  advance..Drumil
> 
> Kind Regards,
>     Kostas
> 
Thanx Kostas,

I want to configure for a network and yes its static
IP

thanx in advance..Drumil


		
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