From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 10 20:44:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E397E14DBA for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:44:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA08889; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 22:44:38 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 22:44:37 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Marc Wandschneider Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: POP for FreeBSD ? In-Reply-To: <13D5F9EDFD72D211BC3100105A1C22330549B9@akira.lanfear.com> 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 Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Marc Wandschneider wrote: > Hope this isn't too blatant an FAQ, but I will be setting up > SendMail on my FreeBSD machine in the near future, and was wondering if > Sendmail supports POP right out of the box, or if I have to install some > sort of POP3 software? > You need a pop3 server. There are several choices. Qpopper, the most common, will do just fine (/usr/ports/mail/popper/). Extra help and the latest beta if you prefer the bleeding edge of technology can be found at http://eudora.qualcomm.com/free/servers.html. > Anything else I'd want to know about setting up a mail server? > It'll be used by Windows clients using Outlook (Express). > I have a lot of problems with sendmail, qpopper and MS Outlook clients and, guess what, all the problems can be traced back to broken outlook clients, clueless lusers or me messing with the servers... Everything else you need to know is probably in the book. -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message