At 03:44 PM 6/26/98 -0500, you wrote:
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>From: dreamwvr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 2:08 PM
>Subject: Re: POP3 server config page?
>
>
>>Hi Sean,
>> You had mentioned that IMAP is better than POP3 but i am not certain
>>how to configure it:'( do you simply add it to /etc/services and have it
>>listen for
>>requests for mail.
>
>Pretty much. You'd probably want to run it from inetd. Whichever imapd you
>choose will have specific configuration instructions. They're usually very
>complete instructions.
>
>> From what i understand it does the delivery rather than
>>sendmail.
>
>sendmail uses a local delivery agent to deliver mail to the proper
>mailboxes. imapd doesn't get involved in this process at all.
so in other words say the eudora windows product accesses the pop3 server
which in turn access the /var/spool/mail and streams the mail over to the
wnd users file where it is written and del the files that were saved
on the mail server by sendmail. Just trying to get this clear:') TIA
>
>BTW, IMAP is "better" than POP3 in some senses, but there're two fairly
>crucial senses in which it isn't:
>
>1) IMAP provides more access to your machine. It is therefore more
>sensitive to, and subject to, security problems. In fact, there has been a
>fairly recent rash of IMAP-related security problems. So keep up with the
>latest security fixes.
>
>2) There are a heck of a lot more POP-capable programs available than there
>are IMAP-capable ones. This is becoming a non-issue, though, since all the
>major readers are adding (or have added) IMAP support.
>
>
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