What E-mail software does FriHost S2 use? Is it a thing built into Linux or Apache? Or is it something else?
E-mail server
| hack_man_ wrote: |
| What E-mail software does FriHost S2 use? Is it a thing built into Linux or Apache? Or is it something else? |
I think it may be "sendmail"
Last edited by wumingsden on Sun Nov 26, 2006 6:01 pm; edited 1 time in total
| hack_man_ wrote: |
| What E-mail software does FriHost S2 use? Is it a thing built into Linux or Apache? Or is it something else? |
Hmm... Let's see
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daniel@server1:~$ nc frih.net smtp 220 host.frih.net ESMTP Exim 4.60 Sat, 25 Nov 2006 21:50:52 -0600 QUIT 221 host.frih.net closing connection |
For SMTP, it's Exim, which is quite standard on hosting servers.
And for POP3:
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daniel@server1:~$ nc frih.net pop3 +OK POP3 Welcome to vm-pop3d 1.1.7e <21581.1164513557@host.frih.net> QUIT +OK |
Some obsure POP3 daemon which I've never heard of (vm-pop3d)
Also, Apache is only a web server, so it only handles HTTP requests
Odd, I would have expected that they both use the same program...
hmmm ... isn't sendmail a piece of email software? It goes to show just how much i know about servers 
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| Odd, I would have expected that they both use the same program... |
Yeah, I would have thought the same thing, but apparently Linux servers don't work like that
. cPanel servers usually run cppop (cPanel POP3 daemon) for POP3
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| hmmm ... isn't sendmail a piece of email software? It goes to show just how much i know about servers |
Yeah, sendmail is a piece of email software, but it's not used that much any more. It used to be used a lot, though. Even though the server has a binary at /usr/sbin/sendmail, all it does is call Exim. It's kept like that for compatibility reasons (a lot of programs [including PHP] that need to send emails call /usr/sbin/sendmail. /usr/sbin/sendmail is actually a symlink to exim4)
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Yeah, I would have thought the same thing, but apparently Linux servers don't work like that . cPanel servers usually run cppop (cPanel POP3 daemon) for POP3
Yeah, sendmail is a piece of email software, but it's not used that much any more. It used to be used a lot, though. Even though the server has a binary at /usr/sbin/sendmail, all it does is call Exim. It's kept like that for compatibility reasons (a lot of programs [including PHP] that need to send emails call /usr/sbin/sendmail. /usr/sbin/sendmail is actually a symlink to exim4) |
Thank for the explanation, I did get a little confused
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Yeah, I would have thought the same thing, but apparently Linux servers don't work like that . cPanel servers usually run cppop (cPanel POP3 daemon) for POP3
Yeah, sendmail is a piece of email software, but it's not used that much any more. It used to be used a lot, though. Even though the server has a binary at /usr/sbin/sendmail, all it does is call Exim. It's kept like that for compatibility reasons (a lot of programs [including PHP] that need to send emails call /usr/sbin/sendmail. /usr/sbin/sendmail is actually a symlink to exim4) |
Wow! Nothing like making things crystal clear for us noobs!
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| wumingsden wrote
Thank for the explanation, I did get a little confused |
You -were- confused? That made sense to you!? You guys are frihks! I didn't understand a single work, it's all geek to me!
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