Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:52:18AM +0800, Feizhou wrote:
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>>>Me neither. I have been running e-mail server for so long, that I
>>>really don't care about these "blackbox" solutions. They are more
>>>trouble than they are worth.
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>>Except when they are well done. vpopmail, vmailmgr...don't exim also
>>have something written for it to manage virtual mailboxes?
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> Exim itself does that.
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> And vpopmail is not a blackbox solution :)
Ah, i wondered what you meant.
>>>Actually, .forward provides intra-MTA routing instructions, not delivery
>>>instructions :)
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>>Please stop muddling things for newbies. A line with a pipe in the
>>.forward file means deliver mail to program through a pipe. A line with
>>a path means deliver a copy to this mailbox and a line with an email
>>address means forward a copy to the email address.
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>>You are mixing up 'mailertables' on sendmail, 'transports' on postfix
>>and 'smtproutes' on qmail with .forward/.qmail local delivery
>>instruction files.
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> No, I'm not. .forward/.qmail will provide instructions for the MTA.
> They don't do delivery, so they are not a "local delivery system".
Hmm...ok. dot-whatever != local delivery agent. I guess I should say it
boils down to what qmail-local and its dot-qmail mechanism does compared
with the pairing of sendmail's local mailer and its dot-forward
mechanism and postfix's local (that is what its LDA is called) support
of sendmail's dot-forward.
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>>>I agree "nothing to do" was a little strong worded, since everything
>>>has to do with local delivery. That is, after all, what the whole
>>>e-mail system is about.
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>>-_-. "intra-MTA routing" has nothing to do with local delivery...
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> Depend on the final routing target, which can be local delivery.
=D. Got me there. The only exception being qmail...once a message is
queued, its routing has been set whereas you can still change that if it
were postfix, sendmail and I guess exim.
