From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 30 17:29:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (ekgr-dsl-145.citlink.net [207.173.232.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A11F37B40B; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 17:29:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bigdaddy (bigdaddy.mykitchentable.net [192.168.0.3]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 459A2EE623; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 17:29:25 -0700 (PDT) From: "Drew Tomlinson" To: , Cc: "'Louis LeBlanc'" Subject: RE: Setting up cyrus-imapd from the ports Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 17:27:05 -0700 Message-ID: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A0F3@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F0239014F559E@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Louis LeBlanc > Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 5:08 PM > To: questions@FreeBSD.org; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: Setting up cyrus-imapd from the ports > > > On 09/30/01 06:33 PM, William Ward sat at the `puter and typed: > > On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 09:52:36PM +0200, Marko Cuk wrote: > > > Do you use Postfix, sendmail, ... ?? > > > > I'm using sendmail. But that doesn't mean i know how to set it up. > > The mail delivery scheme goes something like this (I'm self taught so > don't expect this to be 100% accurate - corrections on my take would > be most welcome): > > MUA -> MTA -> MDA -> MUA > > Mail User Agent, Mail Transfer Agent, Mail Delivery Agent, and back to > Mail User Agent. > > An MUA is what you use to send and recieve mail, like Mutt, Netscape, > or MS LookOut. > > An MTA is used to transfer your message to the recipients' mail server > - the message will very likely go thru several MTAs before finding the > MDA. > > An MDA takes the message from an MTA and places it in a repository > from which an MUA can access it - often a POP or IMAP mailbox. > > The recipient will then use the MUA of their choice to read it. I have spent the past 3 days trying to configure a 4.4 box so it will collect my mail and allow me to get it via POP3. Thanks for your explaination. Now I think my problem might be that I don't have a MDA? I have successfully set up Postfix (I think) and it's replaced Sendmail. Next, I've installed Courier-IMAP from the ports but I don't know if it's running right or not. I only want to use the POP3d at this time but can forsee the need for IMAP later. So two questions: 1. Do I have a MUA in this configuration? 2. If I do, does it deliver in the maildir format? As you can tell, this is all *VERY* new to me. Any advice, links, RTFMs, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Drew [...] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message