[plug] Post fix

[Brian Tombleson]

Well, you are still correct in what you need .. you need a program that will
fetch remote mail from a POP3 account and deliver it to the local system
(fetchmail), you need a local mail delivery system (postfix / sendmail /
smail / qmail / whatever) and you need a post office control (POP3) service
if you want to retrieve mail with some sort of client (pop3 Daemon).

You don't *need* pop3 .. you could always telnet to your mail server, goto
the mail spool dir and cat the file, but if you want to check your mail with
a mail client (Netscape, Eudora, Outlook, etc), they talk pop3 or IMAP
(generally).

When they said that Postfix comes with it's own pop3 server, you will still
have to configure it to be that.  Postfix (by itself) will be a MTA
generally talking SMTP .. you still have to install/confure a pop3 service
but you may not need to get a third-party one.

Check your PostFix doco.

- Brian.

From: "Bret Busby" <bret at clearsol.iinet.net.au>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 10:29 AM
> Leon Brooks wrote:
> > Matt Kemner wrote:
> > > On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Emerge wrote:
> > >> I have intstalled postfix on my Redhat 6.1 system [...]
> > >> however when I check my mail on my Linux system I get and error
> > >> I am useing Outlook Express
> > > Pop3 has nothing to do with sendmail or postfix.
> > Actually, PostFix provides one of its own if need be.
> >
> > --
> So, what's the story, then?
>
> To have a mail sever, that will fetch mail from an ISP, and distibute it
> within a LAN, what do we need to instal? I understood that we need to
> instal fetchmail, postfix, and a pop3 server.