web mail interface program.

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at toybox.placo.com
Tue Jun 28 06:44:39 GMT 2005



>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Ken Ebling
>Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 10:44 PM
>To: Gary Kline
>Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: web mail interface program.
>
>
>The only catch with courier-imap is that it will not read mail from  
>mbox mailboxes (/var/spool/mail).  You have to be using Maildir  
>mailboxes, which I'm not sure sendmail will do natively.  

Sendmail does not do mbox mailboxes natively.  The mail.local program,
or /bin/mail or other variation, that is called by Sendmail is what
talks to the mailboxes on the system.

The mail.local program supplied with sendmail is an old leftover from
BSD days where Sendmail was originally developed.  It is a very simple
program and is only included as a matter of convenience.

>I know you  
>can use Sendmail -> Procmail -> Maildir though.
>

Yes, that is the way that you do it.  Procmail is a better delivery
agent than mail.local by a long shot.

Ted


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