[TriLUG] mail server

[mark at thefowles.com]

jeremy,

Thanks -- My problem is that I started already with qmail - not sure how easy it will be to undo what I've done. Qmail comes with a nice pop3 daemon and with the password checker, I don't have to install ldap -- Just not too many sites that can tell me about errors and what to look for. Right now, it queues the messages but wont send them --   If I can't get this running, I will back out and just do sendmail with the University of Washington IMAP implimentation -- Does this come with a pop3 server?

Thanks,
Mark

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On 14 Oct 2002 12:52:39 -0400, Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 11:47, mark at thefowles.com wrote:
> > Thanks everyone for your input -- I think I will try a couple of the 
> > suggestions. The university of washington imap, and then qmail using 
> > postfix as the transport --
> 
> Mark,
> 
> qmail, postfix, and sendmail are three examples of Mail Transport Agents
> (MTAs) -- you would use one or the other, not a combination.  Sendmail
> is the "de facto" MTA and is the default on most Linux distributions. 
> Since you're pretty new at this, I personally would NOT recommend using
> a different MTA -- sendmail works just fine for basic needs.  Your
> distribution should have documentation on using the mail tools that are
> provided -- for example, Red Hat has excellent documentation on
> configuring the default installation of sendmail on Red Hat Linux.  I
> would recommend starting with your distribution's documentation --
> looking at third party web pages could be even more confusing.
> 
> --Jeremy
> 
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