[X Servers] AppleMail vs. sendmail

[Sytse Kuijk]

Mmmm, everyone I contacted points to sendmail.
I do have qpopper experience.
Guess I'll go buy the sendmail book...
BTW, I have 19 years Mac experience and 19 years Unix of different 
flavours. Just not very much system administration, but that is 
rapidly changing...

sytse

>If you want to implement a powerful email server that you can do 
>just about anything with, than sendmail is what you are looking for. 
>However, sendmail's power is equal to it's complexity. I have three 
>solid years of Unix experience (12 years of Mac) and I've been 
>playing with sendmail for about 6 months so far. While I am using it 
>for internal use, my comfort level with it is not high enough to 
>implement it for external use.
>I would recommend looking into qmail. Qmail is also open source and 
>is designed as a sendmail replacement, but much easier to configure. 
>Any programs you may have written that use sendmail will also work 
>with qmail without change. This part is important for me.
>
>One important thing to know about sendmail is that it is strictly an 
>mail transfer agent (MTA). It is not a POP3 or IMAP server, which 
>means "out of the box" you can't use your standard email client to 
>connect to it. You need to also run something like qpopper from 
>Eudora. It's free and easy to implement, but it is another piece 
>that you need to implement.
>

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