On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 02:06, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Do, den 18.11.2004 schrieb Ow Mun Heng um 8:43: > > > Also, I've heard that sendmail does not support maildir format natively, > > but I've also heard that one can use procmail to deliver it into maildir > > format. > > Sendmail does not know anything about the mail storage, either it may be > mbox or maildir format.
Which is where procmail come. > Sendmail always needs an LDA or could pass the > mail to an LMTP socket, like with Cyrus-IMAPd.With Sieve for filtering > there should be no need for procmail So in effect, usage of cyrus IMAPd, will effectively take over procmails' job as the local LDA/LMTP. I believe sieve functions much like procmail then? It also performs as a mail-filter/forwarder > (though of course you can do more > 'nasty' things than with Sieve - if always reasonlable?). I don't follow. > > Cheers Heng :) Actually, My name goes like this Ow - Surname Mun Heng - Given Name > > Alexander -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 Neuromancer 11:13:30 up 1:58, 5 users, load average: 0.87, 1.32, 0.97 --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
