Hi,

I have install exim on my linux box, and make a Mail account on my windows machine outlook, than I try send email through that account on linux and it works,

But I am not able to recieve email for this user as no service on my linux is running on Port 110 and hence outlook is not able to connect to POP3 server.

I thought Exim will install itself on both ports i.e. 25 (For outgoing) and 110 for POP3, but it doesn't.

do I need some other software for this?
Or I need to configure Exim to listen on port 110?

Please suggest. I even doesn't know how it runs on port 25 as I just make a symbolic link of its in place of sendmail and it start listening to that port. so please give proper steps as I didn;t find them so far.

Thanks

Hello,

Exim is a smtp server, nothing more. From the client perspective, it only allows you to send e-mails. (this is indeed on port 25)

For retrieving recieved e-mails, you need a POP3 or IMAP daemon. Most support both methods.
Some good deamons are:

Cyrus
Courier

Depending on the protocol, you need either: pop3 (port 110) or Imap (port 143)

cheers,

Teebones.

P.s. be sure that your exim installation is not an open relay server! Otherwise your server could be used by the whole world to send emails through, like spam.

Hi,

Thanks for clearing that, but one thing confuse me ..

why you use "either" here, I mean when both protocol listen to different port cannot we have run it for both of them?
Or its just typo.

As I need to have both protocol enable.

Also, I need to run appliction for virtual domains that are hosted on one single machine, like it does for Pleask or cpanel.

Thanks

Sorry for confusing you.
What i was trying to clear up, is wich protocol uses wich port. Sure you can run both together.
For your question about virtual domains, exim/cyrus/courier have support for this.

Hi,

thanks

but frankly I really don't know you solve my problem or increase it, installing exim took me 3 days and now I have to install another mailing software

God knows how quickly I get it solved ...

Soon make another post for installing one of these...
If you can suggest which one is most popular or stable or eaiser ..

thanks

Sorry, but mailing systems involves (on *nix systems anyway) at least 2 deamons to function.
I can't do anything about this.

Furthermore, explaining how to configure the pop3/imap daemon (and possibly installing it) will take to much typing, and can be specific per distribution too.
Both mentioned daemons are evenly populair. so it's merely a matter of personal taste.
cyrus: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/
courier: http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/

Some general pointers:
to be short (and dirty), most distributions come with a pop3/imap daemon you can install with the package manager.
If this is not the case, you need to compile and configure it manually. This is mostly not a very difficult task to do. Read some manuals/readme's on the daemon.

Hi,

Do you have any idea about Qmail, does it support All three protocol or any other mailing solution that support All three protocol ...

About installing, my distro (centos 3) comes with sendmail for port 25 and for POP3 and imap i am not sure what it comes with ...

If you have any idea please let me know, i don't mind compiling from source ...

Thanks