On 15/04/2012 20:48, dennis@home wrote:


"Adrian C" wrote in message
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On 15/04/2012 20:34, Adrian C wrote:
On 15/04/2012 19:15, dennis@home prattled:

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message


I had to evaluate it for IP use when it first appeared. As it was
essentially X-400 with a bit of TCP/IP and SMTP gatewaying bolted on
the front,.

I was actually quite impressed.

OK it ran on NT and it wasn't a patch on sendmail. But compared with
microsoft mail it was a huge step forward. Very corporate though. No
pop clients to a local mail folder. Oh no. Cant have that!

Funny, I use Outlook and it does POP to a local file.

Re-read the words "when it first appeared"....


Mind ye, he was talking about exchange.... So you've also messed your
shorts there.

Your Reading 0/10
My Reading 3.5/10

Since when did mail servers do POP to local files?

Most of them will IME. Hence they can gateway from external mail stores.
(files local to the server that is)

It isn't even likely to have access to local files.
Local as living on a server doesn't make much sense.

Of course it does. Exchange server sucks email from other servers,
stores it locally in its DB, and then hands it out to its clients on
demand. Not rocket science is it?



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Cheers,

John.

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