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BTW, you last point about MS Exchange clients. &nbsp;You need to setup the &quot;Internet Mail&quot; service in exchange to get it to talk to an SMTP/POP-3 service Linux box. &nbsp;It's included with MS Mail Client (i.e. Exchange/Inbox), Outlook, and Outlook Express. &nbsp;MS doesn't always make it easy to understand what this is as they would much rather have you using Exchange server (with it's $1000 price tag and hefty per-user license fees) that the free sendmail/pop-3 services on Linux.<br />
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BTW, you last point about MS Exchange clients.  You need to setup the "Internet Mail" service in exchange to get it to talk to an SMTP/POP-3 service Linux box.  It's included with MS Mail Client (i.e. Exchange/Inbox), Outlook, and Outlook Express.  MS doesn't always make it easy to understand what this is as they would much rather have you using Exchange server (with it's $1000 price tag and hefty per-user license fees) that the free sendmail/pop-3 services on Linux.




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We have a Windows based network (95 and WFW 3.11) but we would like to set up a Linux server so that it can act as the mail server for the users who use these machines. &nbsp;How do we do that and how do we get our existing e-mail software (MS Exchange) to communicate with the server ?<br />
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Thanks in advance<br />
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John Clarke
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We have a Windows based network (95 and WFW 3.11) but we would like to set up a Linux server so that it can act as the mail server for the users who use these machines.  How do we do that and how do we get our existing e-mail software (MS Exchange) to communicate with the server ?

Thanks in advance

John Clarke

Linux as the Mail Server

A Linux distribution is an operating system made as a software collection based on the Linux kernel and, often, on a package management system and are available for a variety of systems. A typical Linux distribution comprises a Linux kernel, GNU tools and libraries, additional software, documentation, a window system (the most common being the X Window System), a window manager, and a desktop environment. Most Linux systems are open-source software made available both as compiled binaries and in source code form, allowing modifications to the original software. Over three hundred distributions are in active development, including commercially backed distributions (such as Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu) and community-driven distributions (such as Debian, Slackware, Gentoo and Arch Linux).

Linux Distributions

The variety of Linux distributions creates myriad issues relating to configuration and operations when computers are networked, not the least of which is the use of various network management applications, some of which are included with specific distributions, while others are standalone applications.