Re: Trouble with exim-tls
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:25:14 -0800, John Schofield wrote:
> First off, I'm trying to get secure POP, secure IMAP, and secure SMTP set
> up on a Woody box.
> The easiest path I've found seems to be installing exim-tls. It installs
> correctly, but I can't seem to connect to it from my mail reader.
Exim is a MTA with some MDA functionality. (MTA == Mail Transfer Agent, a
system that handles SMTP; MDA == Mail Delivery Agent, a system that delivers
mail into mailboxes) It is not a POP3 or IMAP server. There's nothing in
exim for a mail reader to "connect" to.
A typical Unix mail reader access mailboxes through the filesystem and uses
the /usr/sbin/sendmail binary to send out mail on its behalf. If you want to
use a remote mail reader which accesses your mailboxes through (secure) POP3
or IMAP, you need to install a daemon that serves those protocols (for
example, Courier), and to configure it to cooperate with exim (have exim
deliver received mail where your POP3 or IMAP server expects to find it).
HTH,
Ray
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