Send email to unix from Outlook

[kdiwakarsh]

Hi All
I want to send an email from ms outlook to my unix Solaris server.
Can it be done ?

Thanks
Diwakar

 

[jad]

easily ... if your solaris server is running sendmail or another smtp server.

 

[kdiwakarsh]

Hi
Thanks for your answer.

Solaris server is running sendmail.
How to configure Exchange server which is on NT and solaris server to receive mails.
Appreciate your help.

Diwakar

 

[jad]

if sendmail is set up on solaris ... just tell outlook to use the solaris box as it's outgoing smtp server.

 

[kdiwakarsh]

Hi
Appreciate your reply.
Can you please list out the steps to do this or can you point to a website where I can go over the steps.

Thanks
Diwakar

 

[jad]

umm ... i don't use outlook myself, but one of our managers here does ... i think it's under:
options -> accounts -> sending (or under the 3rd/4th tab along)

there are options to enter the port (25) and i believe that there is the option to set the outgoing SMTP server/host there ...

if you need, i'll go and ask politely to look at his setup.

 

[kdiwakarsh]

I would appreciate that..
I tried the above setup but it also asking for incoming mailserver as well...
Also is there setup on unix to allow mails from exchage server ?

 

[jad]

umm ... exchange server ... if it can talk via a smart SMTP host, then you can set it up so that all email from exchange can talk to the unix box ...

i don't actually use exchange, but i've heard of it done.

do you have to use outlook?

 

[kdiwakarsh]

Yes I am using outlook.
Okay this is what I want to do.
I want to forward some emails with attachment like text files from outlook to unix. In unix I have written a shell script which runs as a cron job and which basically will read the attachments and create records in the database.
But for this I need to be able to send mails to unix box from Outlook.

Diwakar

 

[jad]

okay ...

have you created the script on unix already?

it might be easier, if you're not used to sendmail to use samba on the machine write the files/attachments to a directory on the unix box, then periodically (using crontab maybe) run a file to create the records for the attachments.

if you want to send mail to the unix box; you don't actually want to play with the outgoing mail server ... you need to have your currently outgoing mail server (exchange) know that 'jad@unixbox' would be sent to the unixbox with the user 'jad' ... and i don't know exchange well enough(/at all) to be able to tell you if it can handle local hosts seperately from a 'smart host' type of configuration.

you could set up the unix mail so that all of your outgoing mail goes via the unix box, then is 'smart host'ed to your exchange server ... that would work ...