email set up please

I followed the instructions at: http://www.screaming-penguin.com/node/4214
With a couple changes (which are in the comments at the bottom of the article)... In step 6 I had to set both the U: and I: values to be the username for my SMTP account, and in the instructions he has brackets around his mail server - i.e. [mail.bellsouth.net] - I had to remove all the brackets in my setup to get it to work. Also I found it easiest to use Webmin to edit the Sendmail configuration files.

If you just want your logs and Asterisk messages sent to your e-mail, do the following:

log into webmin
bring up Sendmail Mail Server under servers.
select Domain Routing
enter a name like BellSouth under description
select Host or Domain radio button
enter the host name of your asterisk server
under delivery, make sure SMTP is selected
now under send to:
put the SMTP mail address of the carrier your Asterisk server is connected
i.e. mail.bellsouth.net.
now save.

Now go to Mail Aliases
the very last entry should be root
Click on the radio button to enable it
then next to the Alias to select email address then enter your e-mail address in the box

Thats it. It should now work.
To test this in an SSH terminal type:
mail root
test mail
This is my 1st email
.
[Enter]

You should now get an e-mail with the subject "test mail"

You can set up your trixbox as a mail server and then point Outlook at the IP of that machine (or hostname if you've set up DNS or WINS,) but in order to do that you have to create local users on the trixbox machine. That isn't bad if it's a home box, but I wouldn't suggest it for a corporate environment.

For example, as root do:

adduser bob
passwd bob

Then in your extension setup, make the mail go to "bob@localhost".

Last, in your mail client (Outlook or whatever) set up a new mail account, put the IP (or hostname) of your trixbox in the incoming and the outgoing server should be whatever your real outgoing server is. Add the username and password for "bob" and you're set. Just make sure that the mail account you set up isn't set to default.

Hello,

I too want to pop messages from root so I will see any problems which arise.
I know how to modify aliases, but I notice there is no pop3 application running (dovecot, ipop3d, qpopper, pop3d, etc). So nobody's home when an email client tries to pop mail.
What is the recommended application?

Cliff