From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 21:13:08 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B241065672 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:13:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C4988FC16 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:13:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5BC89E80450; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:13:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:13:07 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Foo JH Message-ID: <20110310211307.GA677@thought.org> References: <20110310012331.GA10189@thought.org> <4D782B8D.1000002@extracktor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D782B8D.1000002@extracktor.com> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using dovecot, where is ICOMING mail stored? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:13:08 -0000 On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 09:38:21AM +0800, Foo JH wrote: > On 3/10/2011 9:23 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > >Does anybody know about this obscure stuff? > Disclaimer: I don't really know much about dovecot, except that it's > a much better IMAP daemon than courier - I don't think dovecot > handles SMTP: in other words it does not handle incoming mails. > > What services did you enable on dovecot? > Nothing; zero. Since I did not set it up [ with sendmail ], I just let it do it's thing. I use mutt mostly; evolution for GUI use; there is some SMTP interface between evo and dovecot. Since this has worked for three years, I've just relied on it .... gary PS: There is zero excuse for my ignoranance, so if there any any pages that explain this, please clue me in if you have time. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org