Creating Pop3 Accounts problem

[mapret]

My problem is this:

I have a linux (RH) box set up as a Mail server and firewall. I have a site on a NT server (behind Linux) working with SQL DB that collects information. How do i let NT send a message to Linux to create and maintain Pop3 Accounts. The Linux box is not on the LAN.

Might sound like a stupid question but i don't know where to begin

[The King Ant]

"The Linux box is not on the LAN."

Wha? I really don't know what you're talking about...

It might be possible to use samba to do this (password sync'ing between the linux /etc/passwd file and the NT passwords). There's probably a way to do it with kerberos, but that's really complicated.

You could get a pop3 server for NT. Or set up the Linux box to work with an SQL database.

Ooh! You could have the Linux box querey the NT SQL server for the information, then run whatever you need to to maintain the pop3 accounts. You could do that in a cron script or something.