Re: Anyone using sendmail?

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On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:10:00PM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> >What do you want to do?  If you have a mailbox system that does not
> >depend on unix users existing (the Cyrus IMAPd is such a critter,
> >complex though it is) then Sendmail can deliver to those mailboxes.
> 
> It's my understanding that sendmail doesn't deliver to mailboxes, but 
> depends on a local mailer (the "mail delivery agent", or MDA, and typically 
> procmail) to perform that function.

Strictly speaking you are correct, in the Cyrus case it is lmptd doing the
actual delivery.

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