sendmail and pop server

Whether it can work depends on the format that the pop server wants to see for the mailboxes. If it demands that the mail be kept in its own format you will need some automatic translation program or you are out of luck.

If the pop server is looking for the standard unix setup of a mail directory (/var/spool/mail or /usr/spool/mail) and each mailbox is a text file named with the user name, you could install Samba on the unix box (making it look like an NT server to the NT box), share out themail directory to the NT box, and map the share to a drive letter on the NT box. Point your pop server at the drive and it should work.

WARNING -- this solution will require that some user on the NT (the one running the pop server) gets root access on the Sun. This opens a possible entry into your Sun box.

Good luck.

I have a Solaris environment which has mostly moved to NT. The Solaris server has remained the mailserver. I installed the Sun Internet Mail Server on it and use it for POP too. SIMS was extremely easy to setup. It was a free download when I installed it. Sun probably charges for it now.

I hate to tell you this, but I don't think you can have a pop server on one box with a SMTP server on the other if one is a Windows platform and the other is a Unix platform.

I know that you could do this if you had two unix platforms (one SMTP server and one POP server). The POP server would NFS mount /var/spool/mail from the SMTP server, and would be able to serve via POP that information.

Hope this helps,

Chad Rytting

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