sendmail set up for email accounts

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how can sendmail which is working perfectly on my feora 3 system, as i can send and receive mail through webadmin and it apperars to work great

How can i set that sendmail sends all internal mail to my thunder bird email account, what is the configiuration i have to set up in my thunderbird, SMTP, IAMP, POP3 i do not know what to use when it ask me all these questions, does send mail use smtp, or iamp?


I am lost


i am lost on how to set this up. i am a new person in linux, so can some one explian to this to me very carefully. I am not a technical person.


Thank you Very much

[Omega Blue]

sendmail is a MTA (mail transfer agent) program. It doesn't care what client you use to get your e-mail messages, it simply stuffs them in your mailbox. You only need sendmail if you are running your own e-mail server, which involves things like setting MX records upstream.

My guess is you are using a provider for email. In which case just get the settings from them.

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I am planning to setup an email server, in which my internal clients can send and receive email using sendmail. but i want is them to use an email client such as thunderbird email or a web based email system internally

[Malamber]

OB is right, sendmail has nothing to do with clients reading mail, only sending... it's only an MTA.

It's easy to force the use of a web service to check email. squirrelmail is an rpm for fedora for that purpose which hooks into dovecot (imap / pop client server). At that point, you only allow access to port 143 via a firewall rule. (-dport 143 -s 127.0.0.1).

Forcing a particular client (thunderbird vs evolution) would be a hella of a lot harder to be honest.

[lvansteen]

I have a complete procedure on hwo to set up a SendMail server AND configure a Thunderbird Mailclient.

It can be freely downloaded from http://myco.dyndns.org/blog/index.php?p=9

Hope this helps you out.