On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 07:47:28PM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:30:18 -0800 > Gary Kline <kline_at_thought.org> wrote: > > > { One far, far OT question here: who can explain what dovecot > > is/does? why it even exists? I'm familiar with MTA's, like > > sendmail; likewise with MUA's, like evo, kmail, and mutt. > > It's time to learn another level of complexity, evidently....} > > Dovecot is an IMAP/POP3 server - sendmail lets you send mail, dovecot > lets you fetch it from a remote server. > Well, I gotta fess up and admit that I've been living in the past century for a long time! Weren't these IMAP/POP servers originally for people to use their FreeBSD computers at home from their university [or work] accounts? I had an IP from work for several years, then set up sendmail to deliver mail to my individual machines. i really have let things slide since I went back to school; now it's time to get back on track. For the past two years I've relied on one guy ... and until I am back up to par, if he should get hit by a bus, I'm up the creek. --Thus all these recent questions... . > -- > Bruce Cran -- Gary Kline kline_at_thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.phpReceived on Mon Nov 30 2009 - 20:54:11 UTC
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