Send mail from Windows XP to Linux


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I've just started to do something from scratch so I really need your help now.

First, let me explain my thoughts. Two mail servers in each OS repectively, I chose sendmail for Ubuntu(I'm not sure about this point, whether it's just an agent or I can make it work like a server) and some counterpart for XP. IIS in XP, some in Ubuntu(need your suggestions here). Now it's time for how to set up the mail addr, which is the most nebulous to me. Can I just put it as user@IP-addr-here or do I need a domain name?

Sorry for the abruptness, waiting for your advice.

Well, I post here assuming all the Linuxers have more or less configured Windows.

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sendmail is a full-service mail server. You should only need/want ONE mailserver, whether on your Windows install or Linux one. I think sendmail has support for Windows, but not sure...

Anyhow, the sendmail.org site has a lot of online documentation. Perhaps one of these will help (as I have no experience with this):

http://www.sendmail.org/doc/

http://www.sendmail.org/tips/

  ZSJ said:

I've just started to do something from scratch so I really need your help now.

First, let me explain my thoughts. Two mail servers in each OS repectively, I chose sendmail for Ubuntu(I'm not sure about this point, whether it's just an agent or I can make it work like a server) and some counterpart for XP. IIS in XP, some in Ubuntu(need your suggestions here). Now it's time for how to set up the mail addr, which is the most nebulous to me. Can I just put it as user@IP-addr-here or do I need a domain name?

Sorry for the abruptness, waiting for your advice.

Well, I post here assuming all the Linuxers have more or less configured Windows.

What exactly is it you are trying to do (sorry for being thick here), are you dual boting xp and nix? Are you trying to send mail to a second computer with XP on it, in a network? Or are you simply tying to share email between XP and Linux on the same machine? :cool:

I have never run an emulator, just dual booting. Here is what works for me and might work for you if nix run in emulation can read and write to a FAT partition on your hard drive. I use thunderbird in both XP and linux for email. Now here is the neat thing about TBird' you can choose where your email is downloaded to and read from, in other words where your email is stored to. I simply point thunderbird in Xp and thunder bird in nix to the same location on a FAT partition for mail and viola i am sharing the same inbox betwean the two OSs.:cool:

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