Re: pop3 mail server
Hello,
yes, you are right. I have zero experience in mailservers. So I followed
your diagram and installed postfix, played with the configuration file,
and after a few trail and errors, it works. Postfix is really simple.
Thanks!
Sebastiaan
> The protocol for fetching is mostly POP3 (Post Office Protocol
> 3).
> The protocol for sending is SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol).
> The difficult part is that the Server always send their mails through
> SMTP and recieve it through SMTP. So you need to run a SMTPd like
> sendmail, qmail or postfix. (I realy like the last one, cause it's
> easy to configure and something like secure)
> Fetchmail (a program for fetching mails) delivers the mails local to
> the local SMTPd wich takes the Mail and puts it into your spool file.
>
> O.K. the hole prozess looks somthing like this
>
> You send your mail through SMTP to the relay server.
> SMTP-->SMTP
> The relay server delivers the mail through SMTP to the final
> destination (could be a Mail gateway)
> SMTP-->SMTP
> The destination looks up the user and/or other access roules and
> delivers the mail through SMTP into the local user mailbox (normaly /var/spool/mail/<user_name>
> SMTP-->Mailbox
> Then your friend connect through POP3 to the server and fetches the
> mail.
> Mailbox-->POP3
> Local the fetchmail programm delivers the Mail through SMTP into the
> local mailbox
> POP3-->SMTP-->Mailbox.
>
> Hope it's not to hard do unterstand.
>
> Try postfix and go to www.postfix.org!
>
> Cu,
> Sven
>
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