[ale] local mailserver and POP3

[Pete Hardie]

Fulton Green wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 11:15:29AM -0400, Pete Hardie wrote:
> 
>>Just a quick question about sendmail capabilities.  From reading sendmail's 
>>docs, it appears to not support POP3 clients.  Am I correct in this understading?
> 
> 
> Sendmail, AFAIK, is only an SMTP relayer.  Several revs ago, Red Hat
> included a mail retrival service that combined POP3/IMAP.  I don't know
> what it's called.

I was looking around and found a tutorial mentioning qmail - it looks like about 
as much a chore to set up as sendmail, but does server POP3

> 
> 
>>If so, any recommendations for a home-use POP3 server?  I want to pull family 
>>email down from my ISP with fetchmail, sanitize it with procmail, and serve it 
>>out to POP3 clients like Firefox for the kids.  Or is there a better solution?
> 
> 
> IMAP would probaby be a better sol'n, with custom server-side folders,
> better tracking of what's been read (or not), etc.  Just a thought.

I'm planning on  routing the connection through a box for web proxy anyway, and 
the message logging would be part of that side of it.  I want the filtering 
mostly for SPAM, what with the virus address list harvesting making even 
whitelists iffy.


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