[ale] local mailserver and POP3

[Mike Murphy]

you can pretty much use one of a few products. The sort of grand-daddy 
of all open source POP3 and IMAP servers is the one from UW (same people 
that brought us pine). They are usually run out inetd. On my fedora core 
1 machine, both IMAP and POP are installed by the imap-2002d-3 package.

On fedora core 2 (and many other distibutions), dovecot is the imap and 
pop server. It runs as a standalone daemon. On my fc2 machine, dovecot 
is installed by the dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2 package.

I've found I like dovecot alot. It isn't over-burdoned with 
functionality I don't need, but it was easy to set up stuff like imap 
over ssl with it.

Mike


Pete Hardie wrote:
> 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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