Peter Hardy wrote:
On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 10:56 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, O Plameras wrote:
Mail server means also SMTP in addition to POP/IMAP.
*assuming* that this is an MX -- it might be a box at home which is running,
say, fetchmail to the ISPs mailserver, in which case it doesn't need SMTP
open.
If you're reading email, then there's a reasonable chance you'll want to
send email, too. And it's nice to have a known SMTP server you can just
authenticate with and relay through than have to mess around finding out
the details for whichever random network you've plugged your laptop into
today.
Probably the simplest way is to tunnel imap and smtp over SSH. But, as
you've already mentioned, Dovecot with SSL is fairly simple. SSL and
authentication with postfix was a little bit more tricky, I thought. But
certainly not impossible if you're persistent.
We must remember that Postfix like Sendmail uses SMTP protocol, which means
this a software for sending and recieving messages to and from another
computer.
Dovecot uses POP/IMAP protocols, which means a tool for management of
messages on a server computer.
Hope this clarifies.
O Plameras
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