[ale] local mailserver and POP3

[ale at FultonGreen.com (Fulton Green)]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 11:15:29AM -0400, Pete Hardie wrote:
> Just a quick question about sendmail capabilities.  From reading sendmail's 
> docs, it appears to not support POP3 clients.  Am I correct in this understading?

Sendmail, AFAIK, is only an SMTP relayer.  Several revs ago, Red Hat
included a mail retrival service that combined POP3/IMAP.  I don't know
what it's called.

> If so, any recommendations for a home-use POP3 server?  I want to pull family 
> email down from my ISP with fetchmail, sanitize it with procmail, and serve it 
> out to POP3 clients like Firefox for the kids.  Or is there a better solution?

IMAP would probaby be a better sol'n, with custom server-side folders,
better tracking of what's been read (or not), etc.  Just a thought.