pop3 on FC3

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu Jan 27 16:05:58 UTC 2005


On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 04:24:22PM -0500, Andrej Marjan wrote:
> Dovecot is an IMAP and POP3 server. I use it for IMAP, and it's painless 
> as long as you set up your mail folders in Maildir+ format. I chose it 
> because it was fire and forget, so to speak, with the Debian package, 
> unlike Cyrus or Courier. Both of the latter are relatively large and 
> complex; IIRC Cyrus uses some sort of proprietary mail database format. 
> It looked a lot more involved to set up.
> 
> I presume the POP server is similarly simple.

Courier was always install and forget on Debian when I used it.  At
least I can't remember having to do anything special to it to make it
work.

Lennart Sorensen
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