Re: Bug#725615: [RFR]

[Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com>]

Christian PERRIER wrote:
> For me, Dovecot is a mail "distribution" server. This is indeed how we
> call it, in my workplace (where the incoming/outbound SMTP server is
> separated fromthe "end-user" mail server.
> 
> However, that term of "distribution" is a bit ambiguous for sysadmins.
> 
> My problem with "mail system" is that Dovecot does not offer all mail
> funtionalities, not being able to send/receive mail to/from other
> systems, so calling it "mail system" might be misleading.

And "distribution" to me mainly implies "dispatching" (as in a
snailmail "distribution centre").  Wracking my brains...

 * "mailbox server";
 * "inbound mail server" (an inbound server?);
 * "mail access server" (sounds like IMAP-only);
 * "mail retrieval server" (sounds like POP3-only);
 * "mail delivery server" (sounds like LMTP-only);
 * just "IMAP/POP3(/LMTP) server"...

I can't decide which is least bad.  Maybe "access"?
-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package