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Title: Access E-mail from external source
Post by: Walt on April 04, 2000, 05:50:55 AM

Hi!
E-Smith is great!
I would like to be able to check mail from out side the network " like at home " How do I configure E-Smith to allow outside conections for E-mail only?

Title: RE: Access E-mail from external source
Post by: Charlie Brady on April 04, 2000, 10:17:28 AM

Walt wrote:

> Hi! E-Smith is great! I would like to be able to check mail
> from out side the network " like at home " How do I
> configure E-Smith to allow outside conections for E-mail only?

Go to the email settings in the E-smith manager panel and change the POP server access from private to public. If you have E-smith 4.0 beta, the setting is in the "Other email settings" panel.

Note that if you do this, you open your server up to password guessing attacks, and you expose your passwords to possible network sniffing. It's best to use email forwarding to an existing ISP mailbox  to allow at-home reading of email. WIth E-smith 4.0 you can set this up from the E-smith manager panel.

I hope this helps.

Charlie

Title: RE: Access E-mail from external source
Post by: Mike Stoddart on April 05, 2000, 06:59:23 AM

Or how about a web based solution? There's an earlier thread on this topic, so do a search and read it. I'm not promising miracles though!

On this topic, go to any of the following sites and search around:

http://www.freshmeat.net
http://www.linuxapps.com
http://www.perlmasters.com

Mike