[TriLUG] mail server

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Mon Oct 14 15:11:31 EDT 2002


On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 22:58, Jason Tower wrote:
> absolutely.  postfix merely puts mail into each user's mailbox.  pop3 sends it 
> from the mailbox to the client.  two independent functions.
> 

Realize, however, that postfix does not do pop.  Yes, you can
do pop while using postfix, but postfix itself doesn't know anything
about pop.  All it does is transport mail between two mail servers.
Pop is handled by a completely separate program such as the University
of Washington POP/IMAP server.

Tanner
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