Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP

[Jesse F. Hughes]

Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> writes:

> I thought that Sendmail had a patch available to let it support
> Maildir too.

A little googling told me this:

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| sendmail is only the mail transfer agent, it does not store e-mails by
| itself. To do so, it hands the e-mail message over to a so called
| local delivery agent or LDA for short.
| 
| It is the with choice of the LDA that you make a choice for the
| message store format. Whereas mail.local uses ed7 mailbox format,
| maildrop or procmail (AFAIK) can deliver to Maildirs.
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<http://www.mailarchive.ca/lists/comp.mail.sendmail/2003-04/1031.html>
This makes things simpler.  I already use procmail in a trivial way
(for bogofilter mostly).

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Jesse Hughes
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