From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 2 8:42:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com [66.66.72.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE5B737B419; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 08:42:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9B6C9901A62; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 11:41:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 11:41:52 -0500 From: mpd To: Ernst de Haan Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which is the best pop3 server? Message-ID: <20020302114152.A82122@rochester.rr.com> References: <20020302161622.GA46373@student.uu.se> <02030218253905.03516@heinz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <02030218253905.03516@heinz>; from znerd@freebsd.org on Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 06:25:39PM +0100 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 On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 06:25:39PM +0100, Ernst de Haan wrote: > Hey, > > > > In reviewing the questions archive for pop3 servers these 3 are > > > talked about the most. Qpopper, fetchmail, getmail. > > > > I don't know about the others but fetchmail is most certainly not a > > pop3 server. It is a program to fetch mail from a pop3/imap server. > > /me nods > > And I don't see qmail in this picture. Should not it be in there as well? And > what about postfix. IIRC, both are well-known mail servers. > > Ernst They're well known MTAs. I don't believe either has pop3 functionality. A quick search of the ports collection reveals several pop3 servers. cd /usr/ports/mail && make search key=pop3 mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "TRAGIC! HEY, WHY DON'T WE LOOK AT YOUR WORK AND I WILL GIVE YOU SOME TIPS!!" - Mr. Nutty from "THE MR NUTTY SCHOOL OF PLACEMAT DESIGN" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message