[PLUG] Setting up a mail server

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Wil Cooley wrote:

> Not necessarily.  If your ISP sets themselves up as only a secondary (they
> configure themselves to accept or relay messages for your domains but not
> deliver "locally" [i.e., to your inbox on their mail servers]), then it
> will forward messages it had accepted for your domain when yours comes
> back up.  (It does it automatically, but not immediately, because it
> checks periodically.)
 
Wil,

  That's what I want. No need to put it in a mailbox there.

  So, running POP3 or IMAP is necessary only when a user's mail is stored on
a remote server and must be retrieved from there for delivery to his/her
local mailbox. Yes?

Thanks,

Rich