[sllug-members]: Mail server question

[Spute, Mark K at CSW-SLC]

[snip]

You're a little confused. Sendmail is not a POP3 server, it's an SMTP
server.  The difference is that SMTP transports mail from server to
server and POP3/IMAP transports mail from server to client.

Yup.  Just a little.

That said, you can use Dovecot with Sendmail just fine.  Personally, I
prefer Postfix, but I did use Sendmail prior and it worked well enough.

What you would probably want to do is:

0. Find out what you're really using for POP3 (imapd-2002?)

How do I find that out?

1. Install and configure dovecot
2. Install and configure Procmail and Spamassassin.  These two are
inter-related in most systems I've seen.
3. Massage until they work together.

Also, if you want to check your e-mail "via the internet", you'll want
to switch to IMAP, as that allows you to keep all your mail on your
server, and can thus access it via Evolution, Thunderbird, SquirrelMail,
and anything else that's not retarded when using IMAP (I only mention
Outlook because it mostly works with IMAP).

Okay.  What I really want to do is use IMAP to check my mail at work, and then download it via Thundebird using POP3 to my workstation at home later that evening.  I don't want to keep everything on the server, I just want to be able to read it during the day from work.

Mark

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