To inform your contacts of a change of email address from Microsoft Outlook Express 6:
1. Find a test message that you sent to yourself from your new email address. One that has the display name that you want.
2. Right click on the ‘from’ name/address and choose it might say ‘add to address book.
3. Open you […]
This error implies that your machine can’t connect to the server
What I would recommend is changing to Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 which you will then use for your email instead of Outlook Express
If you wish users to be able to pick up there email by POP3 access to your mailserver (Mandriva 2006 Free) then you will need to set up a POP3 server.
After installing Postfix and getting it to send and manage emails for you, set up of SMTP AUTH can take place. SMTP AUTH enables domain users to send emails via your machine’s SMTP server without leaving your machine an open relay.
You will need to ensure that the following packages are installed:
libsasl2
cyrus-sasl
libsasl2-plug-anonymous
libsasl2-plug-crammd5
libsasl2-plug-digestmd5
libsasl2-plug-gssapi
libsasl2-plug-plain
libsasl2-plug-sasldb
perl-Authen-SASL
(now, it could be that […]
This set up allows webmail access for multiple domains from one Squirrelmail installation.
First install Mutt from
Mandrake Control Center>Software
Assuming that you use Maildir and that the mail files are on the local machine for the local, logged in, user.
Once installed you need to ensure that your $MAIL environmental variable is not showing a mailbox address. You can check using
echo $MAIL
if it is something like
var/spool/mail/root
then you will need to […]
Install Postcast Server on the machine which you need to enable the sending of email by SMTP from
If Outlook Express blocks access to an attachment
SquirrelMail can be found here: http://www.squirrelmail.org/
Upack the SquirrelMail archive (perhaps squirrelmail-1.4.5.tar.gz) into the web directory on your webserver/mailserver. This will create a squirrelmail directory which you may wish to rename - perhaps to ‘email’ or something.
These instructions are taken from the SquirrelMail install doc:
- Select a data-dir and attachment dir, outside the webtree (e.g. in […]