Setup Windows Mail Client

[janu_sun]

Hello,

I am a newbie to setting up mail servers . I have setup Sendmail and I am able to send and recieve mails and I can check this using pine .Now how do I set a windlows client to use the mail server and it does not get through , do I have to do something else other than senmail configuration , like pop or imap.? If I have to do this what are the steps to do this?

[sezer]

do you have dns or static IP?

You will use hostname or ip as mail server name.

You need to check pop3 or imap services are running at inetd

Set iptables in a way your access is not blocked.

Maybe some other issues.

[janu_sun]

I have configured sendmail and dovecot for mail server and pop3 imapd purposes .Now when I try to use outlook express and specify the ip address of the mail server , it says cannot connect , but when I try to setup the mozilla mail client in linux on the server with localhost as the servers it works (but still does not work with ip address).

I tried to check if the ports are open using nmap and this is th command I used

nmap -sT 65.103.191.30
Starting nmap 3.70 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-04-29 10:16 MST
Interesting ports on 65.103.191.30:
(The 1658 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
PORT STATE SERVICE
23/tcp open telnet
80/tcp open http

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.998 seconds

and on localhost

nmap -sT localhost

Starting nmap 3.70 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-04-29 10:16 MST
Interesting ports on localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1):
(The 1647 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
PORT STATE SERVICE
21/tcp open ftp
22/tcp open ssh
25/tcp open smtp
80/tcp open http
110/tcp open pop3
111/tcp open rpcbind
113/tcp open auth
143/tcp open imap
443/tcp open https
631/tcp open ipp
3306/tcp open mysql
5900/tcp open vnc
10000/tcp open snet-sensor-mgmt

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.246 seconds

I also tried port forwarding on my dsl modem (actiontec provided by qwest) , but the same problem.Is there a way to get around this?

[sezer]

I did not understand how those computers are connected each other, but indeed you need to check for pop3 and/or imap services

You will check those in xinetd.conf in /etc and create files for both smtp and imap protocols.

I found a SAMPLE file for imap, seach for default configuration with xinetd

service imap
{
flags = NODELAY
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env
server_args = -R /usr/sbin/imaplogin /usr/libexec/authlib/authshadow /usr/bin/imapd Maildir
# only_from = 192.168.0.0/24
bind = 192.168.0.1
log_type = FILE /var/log/imapd.log
log_on_success = PID HOST EXIT DURATION
log_on_failure = HOST ATTEMPT
}


It wont be like this example, chech for imapd and ipop3d