Re: Can gnats use pop-server?

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 16:58 30.03.2001 -0800, Sunil Pamidi wrote:
> Hi,:
>
> I liked using gnats at my previous company, and I was hoping to install
> it at my new company. Much to my dismay, they don;t use sendmail here,
> but use a pop-server. Not being a unix expert, I'm not sure whether this
> is a showstopper in terms of using gnats. Can anyone give me a pointer
> on what I need to do, and *if* I can? Thanks!

You seem to be confusing the roles of different types of mail server. 
Servers such as Sendmail (referred to as SMTP servers) take care of 
transferring mail all the way from the sender to the recipient's mailbox. 
After the mail has been delivered to a user's Inbox, a POP server provides 
services for manipulating and reading the contents of the user's Inbox. 
Basically, your mail client uses an SMTP server for sending outgoing 
messages, but it accesses the messages that are delivered to your Inbox 
through the POP server.

Since you would have to use some kind of UNIX box to run GNATS on, this box 
would probably be running either Sendmail, Qmail, Postfix or some other 
commonly available SMTP server. If not, you would have to get your system 
admins to install one for you. Being a sysadmin myself, I know that it 
always helps if people are able to give a good description of what they 
need, and in your case, the words 'SMTP server' should give them a fairly 
good hint :-)

Hope this helps,

Yngve Svendsen
IS Engineer
Clustra AS, Trondheim, Norway
yngve.svendsen@clustra.com