Re: Sendmail vs. Postfix vs. ?

[Nathaniel Reindl <fiction@sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 03:04:53PM -0500, Ken Keefe wrote:
> So let me make sure I have this straight... Sendmail and Postfix only do
> SMTP? Other servers like qmail do POP/IMAP?

Not wholly correct.

From now on, let's refer to Sendmail, postfix, and qmail as MTAs.
That is, they're programs that only facilitate in the transit of mail
across the network.  That's what MTAs do.

Now, if you want POP3 or IMAP, you want something to run /alongside/
your MTA to give your users some way to get to their mail in the first
place.  Dovecot, Courier, and Cyrus all do some form or another of this.

HTH and RST :)

-- 
Nathaniel Reindl

    "Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt."
       (The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.)
			-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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