POP3?
Reuben D. Budiardja
techlist at voyager.phys.utk.edu
Tue Apr 5 12:24:18 UTC 2005
On Monday 04 April 2005 18:44, Knute Johnson wrote:
> I'm setting up a mail server and need a pop3 server (or should I use
> IMAP) for roaming around with my laptop. I looked at dovecot but I
> think that is more for IMAP. I want a server that can use SASL (or
> something similar) for the login. I'm running XP on my laptop and
> using Pegasus for my mail client.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Dovecot can handle both IMAP and POP. I've used it for both and it's quite
handy and easy to configure. Take a look at /etc/dovecot.conf to configure
it, the file is heavily commented so that helps. You may also want to take a
look at the Dovecot website WIKI for installation / doc / configuration.
If all you want is to login using existing username on the server
(ie. /etc/passwd), then you hardly need to change anything. Just enable
saslauth:
"service saslauthd start"
"chkconfig saslauthd on"
I can say I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to configure all this.
RDB
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Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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