On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:25:14 -0800, John Schofield wrote: > First off, I'm trying to get secure POP, secure IMAP, and secure SMTP set > up on a Woody box.
> The easiest path I've found seems to be installing exim-tls. It installs > correctly, but I can't seem to connect to it from my mail reader. Exim is a MTA with some MDA functionality. (MTA == Mail Transfer Agent, a system that handles SMTP; MDA == Mail Delivery Agent, a system that delivers mail into mailboxes) It is not a POP3 or IMAP server. There's nothing in exim for a mail reader to "connect" to. A typical Unix mail reader access mailboxes through the filesystem and uses the /usr/sbin/sendmail binary to send out mail on its behalf. If you want to use a remote mail reader which accesses your mailboxes through (secure) POP3 or IMAP, you need to install a daemon that serves those protocols (for example, Courier), and to configure it to cooperate with exim (have exim deliver received mail where your POP3 or IMAP server expects to find it). HTH, Ray -- I keep pitching my epic space opera about alien robots who infest our planet and live off celebrities dryer lint to various publishers, but nobody wants to publish a book written by a leader of mexican food, and starring a hero named Litmus VanCenturfuge and his sidekick Pipet Jerks. - CmdrTaco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
