The Postfix/Cyrus combination seemed to be a no go for me (search of the
Cyrus archives didn't reveal anything useful pertaining to the error I was
getting).  So I thought I would try Sendmail.  Installed it, and am able to
SEND mail (from the server) to external mailboxes.  I next installed QPopper
for the POP3 interface.  It doesn't appear to need any special configuration
(Suse handles the basics for you), and I can open port 110 (even if the
server closes it right away - the resulting messges look normal).  However,
when I try to hook up KMail to it, or Outlook from my Windows workstation, I
get errors.  Yet I can see in the /etc/mail folder that there IS mail
waiting for me.

I've looked for details on this but I think I'm too tired and frustrated
right now to do a proper search and understand the results.  Anyone deal
with this before?

I'm close to dropping linux off my server, and reinstalling a windows
platform - I KNOW I can have an email server in a couple of hours that way.
It would beat the two+ days I've spent trying to get a Linux email server
running.  Maybe I'm just not bright enough for this task.... Or, the
learning curve is MUCH MUCH steeper than I anticipated.....

Anyways, I'm done venting.  My appologies for it.  But I would appreciate
any tips for sendmail/qpopper.  Thanks in advance.  I'm digging deeper
through the config files now.... <sighs>

Shawn

(PS.  I looked a Kroupware and Citadel.  Kroupware isn't far enough along
for my taste yet.  Citadel is a drastic shift in the approach I've elected
to take (postfix/cyrus, or sendmail/pop3), but I haven't ruled it out yet).

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