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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: POP3?
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 21:39:20 +0000
Organization: Erol's Internet Services
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Jeffery T. White wrote:
> 
> I have always wanted to do that. Will the POP3 package then get the mail
> from the ISP for all the users on the FreeBSD box or is there more to it
> than that?
> 

Popper will serve as the mail server for all mail addressed to a
username at your domain name. It won't go out to other domains looking
for mail there. For that, you can use popclient, also in the packages
distribution.
-- 
Ken

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