[ale] local mailserver and POP3

[Pete Hardie]

Mike Murphy wrote:
> you can pretty much use one of a few products. The sort of grand-daddy 
> of all open source POP3 and IMAP servers is the one from UW (same people 
> that brought us pine). They are usually run out inetd. On my fedora core 
> 1 machine, both IMAP and POP are installed by the imap-2002d-3 package.
> 
> On fedora core 2 (and many other distibutions), dovecot is the imap and 
> pop server. It runs as a standalone daemon. On my fc2 machine, dovecot 
> is installed by the dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2 package.
> 
> I've found I like dovecot alot. It isn't over-burdoned with 
> functionality I don't need, but it was easy to set up stuff like imap 
> over ssl with it.

Another good suggestion. Thanks!


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