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[Jason Tower]

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, mark at thefowles.com wrote:
> Can I do pop with postfix?
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> On 14 Oct 2002 14:43:53 -0400, Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com> 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
> >
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