Bret Hughes wrote:
>
> I have been concidering using procmail to filter mail and move delete
> incoming messages and know I can have fetchmail send mail to procmail to
> do this. My question is in all the mta mda smart forwarders etc.. Is
> procmail a Mail Delivery Agent (mda) as was suggested by a previous
> post? If so what is serving that purpose now? Here is my current,
> although seemingly ever changeing as I learn, setup:
On recent Linux distros, sendmail defaults to using procmail as the local
MDA. If there are no delivery recipies defined, then procmail delivers to
the local mail spool. So it's likely that procmail is already your MDA.
> what are each of these components called.
>
> sendmail (MTA?)
correct
> procmail
MDA
> mail
> netscape messenger
> pine, elm etc
MUAs
> imapd
> pop3
Not sure. They're daemons that assist in mail retrieval.
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