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Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP
From: |
Jesse F. Hughes |
Subject: |
Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:35:36 +0200 |
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Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> writes:
> I thought that Sendmail had a patch available to let it support
> Maildir too.
A little googling told me this:
,----
| sendmail is only the mail transfer agent, it does not store e-mails by
| itself. To do so, it hands the e-mail message over to a so called
| local delivery agent or LDA for short.
|
| It is the with choice of the LDA that you make a choice for the
| message store format. Whereas mail.local uses ed7 mailbox format,
| maildrop or procmail (AFAIK) can deliver to Maildirs.
`----
<http://www.mailarchive.ca/lists/comp.mail.sendmail/2003-04/1031.html>
This makes things simpler. I already use procmail in a trivial way
(for bogofilter mostly).
--
Jesse Hughes
"Yes, I'm one of those arrogant people who tries to be quotable.
There is actually at least one person who quotes me often."
-- James Harris
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, (continued)
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, Richard Watson, 2004/07/16
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, Jesse F. Hughes, 2004/07/16
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, David Magda, 2004/07/16
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, Kai Grossjohann, 2004/07/17
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, Jesse F. Hughes, 2004/07/18
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, Marcus Frings, 2004/07/18
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, Jesse F. Hughes, 2004/07/18
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, Marcus Frings, 2004/07/19
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, Jesse F. Hughes, 2004/07/18
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, Christopher Browne, 2004/07/18
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP,
Jesse F. Hughes <=
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, Marcus Frings, 2004/07/19
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, Richard Watson, 2004/07/19
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, Jesse F. Hughes, 2004/07/20
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, Kai Grossjohann, 2004/07/19
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, Josh Huber, 2004/07/20
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, Marcus Frings, 2004/07/20
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, David Magda, 2004/07/19
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, Jesse F. Hughes, 2004/07/20
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, Richard Watson, 2004/07/20
- Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP, Marcus Frings, 2004/07/20