From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 26 6: 6:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.ie-online.it (dns.ie-online.it [194.133.148.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75A0715625 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 06:06:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from dns.ie-interna.it (host1.ie-online.it [194.133.148.10]) by dns.ie-online.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA24328; Wed, 26 May 1999 15:06:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from stefano (stefano.ie-interna.it [192.168.0.33]) by dns.ie-interna.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA06751; Wed, 26 May 1999 15:06:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990526150624.00a50470@relay.alice.it> X-Sender: riva@relay.alice.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 15:06:24 +0200 To: peter kok From: Stefano Riva Subject: Re: mail server Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <374BBFEB.627F1833@sweda.com.hk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 17.33 26/05/99 +0800, you wrote: >I would like to know what is the different between >POP3 server >and >IMAP server >and which is good for mail server Both. A "mail server" usually runs two applications: an MTA such as sendmail (using SMTP) and a server for users; POP3 and IMAP are two protocols users-side. In a few words, POP3 is more client-oriented (more tasks accomplished by clients), IMAP is more server-oriented. You have to choose by yourself, but be aware to check the software you want to use in clients; almost everything supports POP3 whereas it's not the same for IMAP. Personally, I'm happy running qpopper (POP3). --- Stefano Riva Software Engineer - Systems Administrator Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl Phone +39-027528400, Fax +39-027528451 Email sriva@alice.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message