Re: email server concept: what's mail delivery agent

2004-06-03 Thread Etienne Goyer
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Sorry but I think my question is still not answered so far: if I am going to use the cyrus' delivery agent (now I realize I should use lmtp(8) from postfix and lmtpd(8) from cyrus), I don't have to go through virtual(8) and local(8) any more? Right? Yes for local(8), but I am

Re: email server concept: what's mail delivery agent

2004-06-03 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Zhang Weiwu wrote: I'm a newbie but I don't know why I need to use lmtp at all. I was told by the comment in main.cf and master.cf that I can use mailbox_transport = cyrus and deliver(8) will be called to do mail delivery. Since I'm runing a single server, is there any obvious

Re: email server concept: what's mail delivery agent

2004-06-03 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Etienne Goyer wrote: Zhang Weiwu wrote: I'm a newbie but I don't know why I need to use lmtp at all. I was told by the comment in main.cf and master.cf that I can use mailbox_transport = cyrus and deliver(8) will be called to do mail delivery. Since I'm runing a single server, is there any obviou

Re: email server concept: what's mail delivery agent

2004-06-03 Thread Etienne Goyer
Zhang Weiwu wrote: I'm a newbie but I don't know why I need to use lmtp at all. I was told by the comment in main.cf and master.cf that I can use mailbox_transport = cyrus and deliver(8) will be called to do mail delivery. Since I'm runing a single server, is there any obvious reason I should use

Re: email server concept: what's mail delivery agent

2004-06-03 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Simon Matter wrote: Sure, you can use the cyrus transport with deliver. But it's not easier, right? IIRC some things like single instance store are only possible with LMTP and I never find out why people insist on using deliver. Are the any advantages? Okay I get you:) thank you. --- Cyrus Home

Re: email server concept: what's mail delivery agent

2004-06-03 Thread Simon Matter
> Simon Matter wrote: > >>Forget about maildir and such. Cyrus-imapd is a mailserver, not a >>fileserver. By mailserver I mean imap, pop3, sieve but also mail storage >>or mail searching. You simply don't care about how cyrus-imapd stores >>mails and metadata when you configure an MTA to work with

Re: email server concept: what's mail delivery agent

2004-06-03 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Simon Matter wrote: Forget about maildir and such. Cyrus-imapd is a mailserver, not a fileserver. By mailserver I mean imap, pop3, sieve but also mail storage or mail searching. You simply don't care about how cyrus-imapd stores mails and metadata when you configure an MTA to work with cyrus-imapd,

Re: email server concept: what's mail delivery agent

2004-06-02 Thread Simon Matter
> m wrote: > >>You should read a few books and the relevant RFC documents BEFORE going >> any >>further! >> >> > Thank you! I still wish to hear some suggestions: If there is delivery > agent in both postfix and cyrus, what should I lean on? I read the > virtual(8) and local(8), are these two the s

Re: email server concept: what's mail delivery agent

2004-06-02 Thread Zhang Weiwu
m wrote: You should read a few books and the relevant RFC documents BEFORE going any further! Thank you! I still wish to hear some suggestions: If there is delivery agent in both postfix and cyrus, what should I lean on? I read the virtual(8) and local(8), are these two the so-called 'delivery

Re: email server concept: what's mail delivery agent

2004-06-02 Thread Patrick Welche
This is the way I understand - this might be wrong too! On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 07:49:53PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > 1. Moden mail servers don't often do mail forwarding. So upon receiving > an email, it will always be 'local delievery'.; I understand local delivery to mean "write this message

Re: email server concept: what's mail delivery agent

2004-06-02 Thread m
> From: Zhang Weiwu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 19:49:53 +0800 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: email server concept: what's mail delivery agent > > > Hello. I'm trying to set up an email server several days. I think the > most difficul

email server concept: what's mail delivery agent

2004-06-02 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I'm trying to set up an email server several days. I think the most difficult part is to know when what does what. I wish to be clear on some concepts. I am running cyrus + postfix + ldap on a gentoo server, multiple virtual domains (sealed mail server, no mail user have system account).