[TriLUG] mail server

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Mon Oct 14 10:40:18 EDT 2002


On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 10:28, mark at thefowles.com wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good email server for linux, or a good step by step for configuring sendmail to handle pop3?

What are you trying to accomplish?  Sendmail is only an MTA (mail
transport agent).  It only transports mail between endpoints.
After that you need some other program for accessing the mail.
This can be a pop3 server, an imap server, or even a program
(like pine or mutt) that will access the mail file directly.

The University of Washington makes an imap server that also
does pop3.  It is much maligned, but it is very easy to setup
and works adequately.  In fact, it generally comes standard
in most linux distributions these days and you probably only
need to configure something in the inetd or xinetd configuration files.

Alternatively, there are other pop3 servers out there.  A 
quick google search should show you several.

Tanner
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