why sendmail and not postfix?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 04.12.2003 schrieb Rui Miguel Seabra um 19:17:
> On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 18:09, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> >     Postfix stores emails in a one-email, one-file arrangement.  It's
> > still early enough in the development of such apps that, in order to
> > work with these emails, your app has to be Postfix-aware.
> 
> I'm baffled. You can tell Postfix to use Maildir, mbox etc... where it
> drops mail. There's no email app that's Postfix-aware... an MUA (Mail
> User Agent... like Evolution, mutt, Kmail, etc...) may have to know how
> to read Maildir's, mbox, whatever :)

[ snip - shortened to what i like to reply ]

No, at least MUAs like Evolution or Kmail which access a mailserver
remotely through POP3 or IMAP protocoll do not have to care about
maildir or mbox storage format on the server side. It's the job of the
mailserver like UW-imapd or Cyrus-imapd or Courier-imapd i.e. They are
the interface between what the user remotely sees through POP3 or IMAP
connects and what the server stores on his side.

Alexander


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