[KLUG Members] Sendmail X Postfix

[Peter Buxton]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 12:59:46PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> > Do you mean, "Does each email address require a valid Account on the
> > server?"
> 
> Has nothing to do with the MTA.

It's partly the MTA and partly the mailstore.

> Most distro's ship with the ancient default mailstore that drops a
> file per user in /var/spool/mail.  That is because they also ship with
> the ancient, antiquated, and kludgy UW IMAP server.

They also do it because a lot of people who get mail on their boxes
don't use IMAP at all. Now that my home box is under dialup :-( I'm
thinking about setting up .procmailrc and turning ~/Mail into a Maildir.
I get all the Cyrus IMAP I want at CARES.

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