8.0-RELEASE completed...
Bruce Cran
bruce at cran.org.uk
Sun Nov 29 19:48:10 UTC 2009
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:30:18 -0800
Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> { One far, far OT question here: who can explain what dovecot
> is/does? why it even exists? I'm familiar with MTA's, like
> sendmail; likewise with MUA's, like evo, kmail, and mutt.
> It's time to learn another level of complexity, evidently....}
Dovecot is an IMAP/POP3 server - sendmail lets you send mail, dovecot
lets you fetch it from a remote server.
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Bruce Cran
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