Solaris Resources at Kempston

Configuring Solaris 7 and Solaris 8 to send and receive email on a dial-up connection

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Most dial-up systems send outgoing mail to their ISP using SMTP and retrieve incoming mail using POP3. These pages describe the configuration of Solaris 7 and Solaris 8 for this typical case and cover the configuration of sendmail to send outgoing mail and the installation of fetchmail to retrieve incoming mail from a POP3 server.

A few ISPs, such as Demon Internet in the UK, deliver incoming email using SMTP and a page is also provided on the configuration of sendmail to accept incoming email.


Outgoing SMTP email Configuring sendmail on Solaris to send outgoing mail to an ISP
Incoming SMTP email Configuring sendmail on Solaris to accept incoming mail from an ISP using SMTP
Incoming POP3 email Compiling, installing and configuring fetchmail to collect incoming mail from an ISP using POP3

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