At 03:52 PM 1/20/00 +0800, Richard Whitfield wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am a novice with Linux and Sendmail, and need some help understanding how
>it works. I have looked at the books and there is one thing I do not
>understand, as follows:
>
>I want to use one Linux box as an email server for a LAN of Windows PCs
>using conventional email clients like Outlook98 or Eudora.
>
>Sendmail is an MTA and I understand how the client's can establish an SMTP
>connection to Sendmail running on my proposed server to send off messages.
>
>I also understand how other MTAs can connect to my server using SMTP to get
>mail to it, and that it then calls procmail (or similar) to put the messages
>for LAN clients into mailboxes on the server.
>
>I have an O'Reilly book on Sendmail that never even mentions POP3 or IMAP
>and the HowTo's I have looked at do not mention it much either.
>
>When I get the LAN email clients to use POP3 to pull their messages from
>their mailbox on my server, what program do they talk to? is it Sendmail
>running on my Linux server, or is there something else I need to have
>running that talks POP3 and understands the mailboxes? Have I got any
>choices as to what I should run on my Linux email server to handle the
>POP3/IMAP side of things?
Generally when you install Linux, you also get the in.pop3d Daemon
as well. (And there is an IMAP Daemon included in most distros)
Personally, I use the stock in.pop3d for my pop3 clients, but I haven't
played around much with IMAP stuff.. (No need as my server is not used for
business applications) The only other POP3 Daemon I know about, and have
used is qpopper (by Qualcomm) -- It's nice.
Hope that helps. (I'm a bit under the weather, so apologies if my response
is less than clear.)
Cheers!
Jay
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