[plug] Am trying to set up a newsgroup as a "knowledge base" for programming lessons...

[Paul Wilson]

> From: Gary Allpike <spice at linux.spice.net.au>
> To: 'plug at linux.org.au'
> Subject: RE: [plug] Am trying to set up a newsgroup as a "knowledge base"
 for programming lessons...
> Date: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 12:44 PM
> 
> 
> Just remember,
> 
> sendmail is NOT a POP server.
> 
> You will need something else to do POP - I suggest cucipop.
> 
> Sendmail - despite its name - doesnt SEND mail to the client - only to
> other servers.

You're in danger of starting a semi-religious war based (as usual) on
semantics ! 

Sendmail does indeed send mail. It can send to other servers (as you
rightly said), but also to a client. To demonstrate this, take your chosen
Linux box with sendmail, and send mail to other users on the box. I
guarantee that they will be able to read said mail (assuming the absence of
config problems of course) with something like elm. 

Or were you trying to say something different?

Paul