On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Jacob G Podipara <[email protected]> wrote: >> The way the mail is handed over to the Mail server or MTA(mail transfer >> agent) >> is using the SMTP protocol. But not the real SMTP which comes after that. > > Presume exim/dovecote are MTA, what then is fetchmail/sendmail? > By the way do we have a console based IM? > Podi
Exim is an MTA. Dovecot is an IMAP server and POP3 got added later to it. Mutt, Outlook, Evolution are all MUAs. And Webmail works differently. The browser acts as an MUA and the server that does the mail handling using server side language like perl CGI or PHP actually uses IMAP and SMTP for the work. So the browser as a whole acts as a MUA. But certain webmail implementations may directly read the mailbox from the server. I dunno what you mean by console based IM? Yes, Bitlbee is there; you can do yahoo! chat from the ASCII terminal. It is totally out of syllabus with what we are talking. I am not interested in integrating chat with mail. A unified messaging solution that also works on mobile, tweets and so on, fb integration would be nice but it should be done properly. For now e-mail should be the focus... fetchmail and getmail are just IMAP and POP clients that download mails from a server to a local storage which can then be read using an MUA. But mutt comes with built in IMAP POP3 client, SMTP client and so on. It is really cool, the best mail MUA. It also integrates with vim and other UNIX shell commands nicely. The most powerful way to handle mail sending and parsing replies. It has got colors and highlights and what not. I think it is much better than nail/nmh which I dunno how to use. -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech http://gayatri-hitech.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
