[PLUG] Is there a simple How To for sendmail?

[Jeme A Brelin]

On 22 Nov 2002, Eric Aos wrote:
> I would like to replace my Exchange server with Sendmail.
> 
> So far, I can send and receive mail directly on the server (SUSE), but
> how do I establish a POP3 connection from my windows machine to the
> server to retrieve the mail?

Sendmail is an MTA (Mail Transfer Agent).  It speaks SMTP for sending and
receiving email and has some limited ability to deliver email locally by
writing to a fixed mail directory (though most people these days have
sendmail hand mail over to procmail for local delivery).  It is not a post
office server.  You'll need to run a different daemon to provide that
service.

I kind of like the courier mail system, but there are all kinds of POP and
IMAP servers available.  Try searching by protocol on
<URL: http://www.freshmeat.net >.  A search like "POP3 daemon" should give
some pretty reasonable results.

J.
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