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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