absolutely. postfix merely puts mail into each user's mailbox. pop3 sends it from the mailbox to the client. two independent functions.
jason On Monday 14 October 2002 02:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can I do pop with postfix? > > > ------------------------------------------------ > > On 14 Oct 2002 14:43:53 -0400, Jeremy Portzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 14:24, H. Wade Minter wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Chris Hedemark wrote: > > > > Specifically *because* he is pretty new at this, among other reasons, > > > > I would recommend *not* using Sendmail and instead using Postfix. > > > > Sendmail tweaking *is* rocket science. Postfix is actually pretty > > > > darned easy to set up. > > > > > > If you use the recommended M4 method to configure sendmail, it's > > > certainly NOT rocket science. A bit obtuse at worst, but not the mess > > > that most people make it out to be. It's the extremely rare case that > > > you'll ever have to do any tweaking on sendmail.cf. > > > > Agreed. I've personally *never* had to hand-tweak sendmail.cf -- I've > > only had to edit the M4 configuration, and the various other files in > > /etc/mail . It's really NOT that hard, especially if you read the > > documentation provided by your distribution, rather than generic > > documentation which can go way overboard. And my point was that a new > > user doesn't NEED to do much tweaking -- sendmail "just works" for basic > > configurations. > > > > But I agree that postfix seems to be easy to use, and it is supported by > > modern distributions. Qmail seems to be the most difficult to use of > > the top three. > > > > --Jeremy > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TriLUG mailing list > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
