Fetching mail

IwantLINUX · 07-27-2008, 12:08 PM

Hi,

I have configured .procmail to deliver the incoming mails to $HOME/user-mail/user, but MS Outlook cannot fetch mails from this location, it only recognizes the default location of /var/spool/mail/user.

Is there anyway using which I can tell Outlook to use the changed location?

Thanks.

billymayday · 07-28-2008, 04:52 AM

I don't follow - Outlook doesn't see any location on your linux box, it talks to a server that serves it mail.

WHat it the setuo you are using - what machine has what on it, etc. What distro are you running (please don't say RH9 - bin it now).

You are going to need an imap or pop server of some description. Have you ever set one of these up?

IwantLINUX · 07-30-2008, 11:24 PM

Well it is RH9 and the machine is an intel pentium 4 , OE is on a windows XP machine again a pentium 4.

IMAP and POP3 are setup using the RH9 xinetd services from the redhat provided package imap-2001a-18.

Please let me know if you need any further info.

billymayday · 07-30-2008, 11:34 PM

So if imap is actually running (have you tested this?) it should be logging something into your mail log. Try and access with Outlook, and post the relevant lines from the log