Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:32:15 -0700 From: Samuel Chow <cyschow@shaw.ca> To: Joshua Lokken <inspector.us@omicnet.com> Cc: "Freebsd-Newbies@Freebsd. Org" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UNIX Mail help Message-ID: <003401c2ea68$cd38df30$8142412f@SAMCHOW2> References: <OAEGJMOGEKPEGCNHFDFFOEMBCDAA.inspector.us@omicnet.com>
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From: "Joshua Lokken" <inspector.us@omicnet.com>
> Each time I decide to tear into the project of setting it
> up, I realize that I don't have the basic understanding of
> UNIX mail to complete the job.
I have the exact same feeling when I started to do that
for fun a couple years back. The mail system looks simple
but is very complicated.
1) understand there are many pieces to the puzzle. DNS,
SMTP, POP3, and IMAP are all protocols used in
various stages during mail delivery (I am talking
about the user actually see the mail in the client).
2) understand there are more than 1 way to store mail
on the server: mbox, Maildir are all mailbox formats,
and you get to choose exactly one.
3) understand how your ISP do mail, and decide how much
you want to leverage their infrastructure.
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Samuel Chow
cyschow@shaw.ca
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