From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 9 20:58:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BC3A1538E for ; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 20:58:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA03944; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 15:51:40 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 15:51:38 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Mark Einreinhof Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: Mail server question In-Reply-To: <000201bee2dd$2e94b520$0201010a@cmr.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Mark Einreinhof wrote: > Ok, help me understand the difference in mail servers... > > Sendmail handles SMTP traffic, but doesn't handle POP. Is that correct? Correct. Does > Sendmail handle IMAP or is that an add on? It's an add on. > If I install UW's IMAP software does that mean I have SMTP/POP/IMAP separate > from Sendmail, or does it mean I just added POP/IMAP to the server and > sendmail handles SMTP? UW's IMAP provides imapd, and optionally ipop3d. In summary: sendmail => SMTP imapd => IMAP ipop3d => POP3 -- Jonathan Chen | "Vini, vidi, velcro... | I came, I saw, I stuck around" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message