Recipe 20.13. Connecting Your Users

20.13.1 Problem

You have your mail server up and running—now how do users connect to it?

20.13.2 Solution

All you have to do is point their email clients to your server. Every mail client has a different setup menu, but they all need the same information:

• Login name

• Password

• Server name or IP address

• Encryption or no encryption

• Server port number

Figure 20-1 shows the Balsa Mail setup menu.

Figure 20-1. Balsa Mail configuration

Most Linux mail clients autodetect encryption and automatically set the correct port.

20.13.3 Discussion

Linux is chock-full of nice mail clients: Mutt, Pine, Kmail, Balsa, Mozilla Mail, Evolution, and Sylpheed, to name a few. Mozilla Mail is a good choice for standardizing on mixed networks, as it runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.

20.13.4 See Also

• Mozilla (http://mozilla.org)

• Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird)

• Kmail (http://kmail.kde.org)

• Mutt (http://www.mutt.org)

• Evolution (http://www.novell.com/products/evolution)

• Balsa (http://www.newton.cx/balsa)

• Pine (http://www.washington.edu/pine)

• Sylpheed (http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net)