On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:30:18 -0800
Gary Kline <kl...@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.

-- 
Bruce Cran
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