[lug] Mail Daemon (pop/imap)

[Trever C. Trader]

Hotmail will allow you to setup Outlook Express to retrieve your e-mail
and send e-mail.  It's a lot nicer GUI than their webite; Free is nice,
too.

On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, mark wrote:

> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I recently put a hole through the wall and let my mother-in-law share my
> > broadband connection (we live in a duplex).  I have her up and running
> > fine as far as 'net  traffic goes, but I need to give her an account on
> > my Linux machine so she can get email.  I have a static IP and a domain
> > name, so the email is going to be delivered directly to my machine.
> >
> > What is a good choice for an email server to allow her to download her
> > mail messages from my box to her winblows machine?  I have always used
> POP3
> > for email, but I would suppose IMAP or something other would do fine.
> > Something better than plain text passwords would be nice, even though this
> > network is firewalled, because this is MY network ;-).
> >
> > Any recommendations on specific software packages?
>  Hi,
> It is much easier to use one of the free pop servers .  Then setup her
> e-mail client to get the mail from them.
> I don't have the names of the mail servers right off hand but a quick search
> will find three or four.
> 
> Mark Jones
> 
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