Postfix help - Postfix does receive e-mail

[Matthew Carpenter]

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By default (unless Cyrus-IMAP is installed), incoming mail is saved in
either /var/spool/mail/<username> or just /var/mail/<username>

University of Washington's IMAPd (aka imapd) treats that file as "inbox"
and then creates Mail directories in your home directory for your folders.

Cyrus is another beast altogether, with its own mail-storage.  Postfix
actually hands mail off to the Cyrus daemon for filing (instead of
storing it in /var/mail/).

For a peek into the many ways Postfix can be set up to deal with mail,
look at /etc/postfix/master.cf and "man master.cf".  If main.cf is the
main configuration file for Postfix, master.cf is the "mail handler"
configuration file, defining various "pipelines" to handle the mail,
both incoming and outgoing.  For instance, Postfix is told to listen on
port 25 by an smtpd definition in master.cf

Better reading can be found for Postfix in /usr/share/doc/packages/postfix/
~  and
/usr/share/doc/packages/postfix/html/ (use a browser and view the docs)

In fact, as a n00b, you will not only find a wealth of information in
"man" pages, but also in /usr/share/doc/packages/  which has the
specific documentation for each significant package installed (My
current install has 1176 subdirectories, so bring a lunch).  Some docs
are rather limited, but if I want to learn about a new package, that's
where I start.  That and Google, of course :)

In KDE:    <Alt-F2>  the "gg:<search string>"

(note: These are the paths in SuSE and may differ in your distro)

Dirk Moolman wrote:
| Just one quick question - where will the mail be stored on Linux ?
|
| Is it a simple matter of logging onto Unix as the user the mail was sent
| to, and reading his Linux mail using the Linux mail command ?
|
|
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org
| [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Matthew
| Carpenter
| Sent: 19 January 2005 09:44 PM
| To: Linux tips and tricks
| Subject: Re: Postfix help - Postfix does receive e-mail
|
|
| If you are trying to *pull* emails, he's right.  However, if you are
| trying to receive emails from outside connections on port 25, Postfix
| can do this.
|
| If you are trying to *pull* email from another pop3 or imap account, try
| using Fetchmail  (freshmeat.net)
|
| If you are *not pulling* email, tell the Novell crud to shove his
| 1st-level POS non-customer-oriented crap up his tailpipe.  Of course,
| you need something to read your mail from... but you're not getting it
| there!  A secretary could have sent his response, given a little backup
| help to misinterpret and kludge.
|
| Sorry.  I get a little religious about support-infrastructures...
| particularly when they are one of the big ideas behind "we don't want to
| do that free stuff" mentality.
|
| 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.
| |
| | Dirk
| |
| |
| | -----Original Message-----
| | From: Dane-Garrin Balia
| | Sent: 17 January 2005 11:39 AM
| | To: Dirk Moolman
| | Subject: RE: [ Postfix help ]
| |
| | Hi Dirk
| |
| | Ok, its confirmed.
| | Just a little introductory and I hope this helps you.
| |
| | Postfix is a full-blooded MTA, similar to sendmail/exim.
| | Their able to deliver mail to other hosts remote or local via the smtp
| | protocol. [port 25]
| | However, Postfix with its brilliant internals allows for receiving of
| | local mails as well, however it cannot receive mails and download them
| | remotely like how POP3/IMAP does.
| | Even if you look at your Microsoft Exchange box, it would also be
| | running POP3/IMAP (MUA's - mail user agents, for downloading and
| | receiving of mails) and SMTP (MTA for sending of mails).
| |
| | [LITTLE HISTORY :]
| | POP3 = Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) is an application layer
| | Internet standard protocol used to retrieve email from a remote server
| | to a local client over a TCP/IP connection. Nearly all individual
| | Internet service provider email accounts are accessed via POP3.
| |
| | IMAP - The Internet Message Access Protocol (commonly known as IMAP,
| and
| | previously called Interactive Mail Access Protocol) is an application
| | layer Internet protocol used for accessing email on a remote server
| from
| | a local client. IMAP and POP3 (Post Office Protocol version 3) are the
| | two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for email retrieval.
| Both
| | are supported by virtually all modern email clients and servers. The
| | current version of IMAP, IMAP version 4 revision 1 (IMAP4rev1), is
| | defined by RFC 3501.
| |
| | I hope this makes sense.
| | My suggestion to you would be to install a POP3/IMAP Daemon.
| |
| | Please give me a call or send me a mail if you need further assistance
| |
| | Dane
| |
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| |
|
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