[PLUG] Setting up a mail server

[Wil Cooley]

Also Sprach Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> on Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 11:19:30AM PDT
> 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?

Yes.  Well, yes.  It's not quite that simple of an answer, but from
what I think you want to do, it is.

Wil
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