On Friday 18 Jul 2003 1:11 am, JoeHill wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 06:14:45 +0800 > > "Frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > If I might ask,, why did you load on the courier rpm?? > > > > the only time I have done that was for imap.. > > > > As far as pop3 goes, the normal imap rpm contains a perfectly > > good pop3 server that is widely used, well documented and > > easier to get working. (because you don't have to do anything > > other then enable it in /etc/xinetd.d ) > > Okay, got that. Thanks, someone recommended Courier somewhere, I can't > remember...losing track...aaaaarrrrrrhhhh! >
It was me who recommended courier-imap-pop because it allows you to use a different username/password to your regular login. Since pop3 gives usernames/passwords in plain text it can be a security risk. However the courier-imap server assumes the mails are in 'Maildir' format (each mail is a file in a directory) while Fetchmail will by default put the mails in a 'spoolfile' (one huge file with each mail being a block of text in the file) So unless you want to take the time to work out how to set up Maildirs, then the regular imap server is the simplest solution. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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