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On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:30:18 -0800
Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:

> 	{ One far, far OT question here: who can explain what dovecot
> 	is/does? why it even exists?  I'm familiar with MTA's, like
> 	sendmail; likewise with MUA's, like evo, kmail, and mutt.
> 	It's time to learn another level of complexity, evidently....}

Dovecot is an IMAP/POP3 server - sendmail lets you send mail, dovecot
lets you fetch it from a remote server.

-- 
Bruce Cran