Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:54:04 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE completed... Message-ID: <20091130215403.GA94638@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20091129194728.00007891@unknown> References: <1259283983.92302.23.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20091127030601.CAB2C1CC0E@ptavv.es.net> <20091127055757.GA75657@thought.org> <20091127083304.GA8618@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20091129193018.GA87743@thought.org> <20091129194728.00007891@unknown>
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On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 07:47:28PM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote:
> 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.
>
Well, I gotta fess up and admit that I've been living in the
past century for a long time! Weren't these IMAP/POP servers
originally for people to use their FreeBSD computers at home
from their university [or work] accounts? I had an IP from
work for several years, then set up sendmail to deliver mail
to my individual machines. i really have let things slide
since I went back to school; now it's time to get back on
track. For the past two years I've relied on one guy ... and
until I am back up to par, if he should get hit by a bus, I'm
up the creek. --Thus all these recent questions... .
> --
> Bruce Cran
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