Up till now I've shyed away from implmenting mail on my Linux boxes, it seems so complicated and my nice friendly (!) Windows POP3 clients seem generally far easier to use. However, I've now gone back to an ISP (Demon) which tries to deliver mail using SMTP, the only ISP I've ever had where this is an option. It therefore seems time for me to get to grips with this-here Linux mail stuff.
I still need to retain POP3 client access to other mailboxes, so at present I'm thinking that from the vast array of MTAs, MUAs (etc. etc.) these seem to fit the bill for me: 1) QMAIL - 'cos it's also a POP server, meaning I can revert to my Windows clients if I fail to find a Linux one I likt. 2) FETCHMAIL - to get my mail from other ISPs. As far as I can see QMAIL will receive my Demon mail via SMTP and FETCHMAIL can go off to my other ISPs and get the mail there and wack it into QMAIL, so I have all my mail ready for reading via POP. Will this work like I think it will? Will QMAIL act as an SMTP server to deliver mail I send out, meaning I won't have to use an ISP's SMTP server? Sorry if this are naive questions, but even after reading a _lot_ of HOWTOs, READMEs etc. I find the whole area of Linux mail systems pretty much impenetrable :) Cheers, Robin Collins