Help I've got an XP on my Linux network

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Stuart Sears wrote:

> On Saturday 25 March 2006 23:41, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> > Anyway, I've got a family XP box that almost everyone in the
> > house uses (but me)  I've got a FC4 box in the basement that uses
> > Fetchmail to go out and grab emails off the web (lots of various
> > sites for the same people)  and brings them
> > home for people to read (/var/spool/mail/loginname) - they use to
> > use my Linux box (or notebook or a different linux machine) but now
> > they want to use the XP machine (teenagers, don't know what to do
> > with them).  Anyway they have Outlook on the XP machine and everyone
> > has their own account.
> >
> > I can now map drives from the FC4 box to the XP.  I can also
> > print to the printers attached to different Linux machines.  But
> > I can't figure out how toget Outlook to read the mail on the FC4
> > machine.
> >
> > What I'd really like is the ability to leave the mail on the FC4
> > machine if possible - that way I can back it up.  But if that's
> > not availabe I'll live with that.  They will just have to learn
> > that when they use the notebook (linux) they will not have access
> > to their mail.
>
> The easiest way for you to do this is to install an IMAP server on the
> FC4 machine, and connect to that from the XP box with a suitable
> username and password.
> You can also read these emails locally on the FC4 box by pointing your
> mail client at localhost.
>
> The easiest IMAP server for Fedora is called dovecot
> yum install dovecot
> chkconfig dovecot on
> service dovecot start
> should be about all you need.
> then point the outlook machines at your fedora box as an incoming
> mailserver, using IMAP, port 143. The mail will remain on the fedora
> box. Just be certain you have opened up port 143 on that box to hosts
> on your local network (or preferably, just the XP box)
>
>
> HTH
>
> Stuart
>
> --
Stuart,

Thank you very much I will do that - I know dovcot was suggested
before but I didn't want to have another thing running on my
computer if I already had something to doing it.  It's happened
before and I ended up with two things fighting to do the same
thing.

I'll follow your instructions and give it a shot.

Thanks,

Brad