FW: [ Postfix help ]

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005, Dirk Moolman wrote:
>I just received this from our Linux (Novell) support.  Please don't
>shoot me, I'm still learning about mail and don't understand this stuff.
>
>He tells me I cannot receive mail without having pop3 installed on my
>linux box - can't do it with postfix alone.
>I was under the impression that I could.  See his feedback below.

That depends on what program you want to use to read mail.  Personally I
use the character mailer, mutt, which reads directly from my mail folders
using Maildir storage (e.g. mail is in the $HOME/Maildir directory, not in
/var/spool/mail or whatever).

Most of the GUI mailers expect to access the mail using either POP3 or IMAP
requests to a mail server.  I prefer using IMAP which leaves the mail on
the server where it's accessible via webmail and from other systems.

For more info on e-mail in general, check out notes I made for a
presentation to the Seattle Unix Group:

	http://support.celestial.com/doc/email/

Bill
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