Bob Weber <bobrwe...@gmail.com> writes:
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> Why not create a user on the Linux box to receive such emails and have the
> MAC client connect to that user on the Linux box. You might have to
> install a pop server (popa3d ... easiest to install and configure) or imac
> server (dovecot-imapd ... harder to configure and probably more than you
> need) on the Linux box if one isn't installed already.
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> Your MAC would have to have an email client capable of connecting to a pop
> or imac mailbox at the ip of the Linux box or host name in the hosts file
> corresponding to the Linux box.
Thank you. That is essentially what I am thinking of. I
setup a similar setup before I retired. The only difference was
that all of the hosts at work had fully-qualified domain names
but dovecot worked fine on the Linux box and the mac received any
mail I sent without any problem.
Martin McCormick
