On 13-Feb-01 at 14:49, Werner Reisberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:06:12AM -0500, Ken Murchison wrote:
> > > It's written in the upgrade notice, that deliver is only a wrapper to
> > > the lmtp server and that a lmtp client is required.
> >
> > This is NOT true. Deliver's sole purpose in life in 2.x is so that you
> > do NOT need an LMTP client. It provides the same command line interface
> > as in 1.6 and still injects messages into the mailstore. The only
> > difference is that in 2.x it talks to lmtpd instead of dealing with the
> > mailstore directly.
That's not really quite the only difference - it also now has the
'-l' command-line flag so that it can act as an intermediary for
software that can talk LMTP on stdin/stdout; but can't directly
connect to the unix or TCP domain socket.
But that isn't of interest to procmail...
-Pat
