[ale] local mailserver and POP3

[Allan Neal]

This is correct.  Sendmail is an MTA and only does smtp.  If you want to
provide POP3 services you need to stand up a POP3 server.  I use
qpopper.  It is a very simple to setup POP3 server.

Allan

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 11:15:29AM -0400, Pete Hardie wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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?
> 
> Thx,
> 
> -- 
> Pete Hardie                   |   Goalie, DVSG Dart Team
>     posting from, but not     |
>     speaking for:             |
> Scientific Atlanta, Digital Video Services Group
> 
> 
> 

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