I have a question. I have a RedHat 7.1 server on my network at 192.168.0.22
with Samba services running. How would I set it up to allow me to IMAP into
my root account and retrieve my e-mail from my Windows 2000 workstation
using Outlook?
-----Original Message-----
From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of Ronan
Heffernan
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 9:02 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] mail server.
Patrick Grantham wrote:
which service is used so that my linux box can BE a pop server?
You are probably using a POP3 server called "in.pop3d" This program is
actually executed by inetd (the inet super-daemon). This means that
in.pop3d does not actually bind to port 110 and listen for connections. The
inetd daemon binds to all of the ports specified in /etc/inetd.conf, and it
launches the appropriate mini-server whenever a new connection comes in.
Unless you know that you need POP, I would recommend IMAP. With IMAP, your
mail stays on your mail server's hard-disk, and your mail client interacts
with the IMAP server every time you want to get a list of headers, or view a
message. Some advantages include the fact that you can read your mail from
mulitple computers (also great if you dual-boot or swap boot drives), and if
you back-up your server, but not your workstation, then your mail can be
backed-up with the rest of your server hard-disk. Also, if you like to file
your mail into many boxes (ie a SLUG box), with IMAP, the message is moved
into the appropriate box ON THE SERVER. With POP3, the mail client maintains
its own, local, mailboxes for sorting.
Before I get flamed, most POP3 clients have a setting to not delete messages
from the server when they are read, but I always found this to be an ugly
kludge (caching UIDL codes in each client?).
--ronan
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