[sllug-members]: Mail server question

[Remo Mattei]

Spute, Mark K @ CSW-SLC wrote:
> [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
> 
You can use Thunderbird to use imap and get the folder offline as well.
This is how i do my personal email checking as well.

Just my 2 cents.
Remo
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