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?
Regards,
Richard Whitfield
Megatrend Information Services Ltd.
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