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.
Except when they are well done. vpopmail, vmailmgr...don't exim also have something written for it to manage virtual mailboxes?
I don't find postfix a pain to configure...besides Devdas and one of my managers, there is no other postfix guy where i work. We do have an exim guy :D. postfix requires more reading to maintain and configure. It gets an unfair advantage by being preinstalled and preconfigured for system account delivery and thereby making it appear simple.
Yeah, the bastards :)
Actually, as long as you have a sound base system (qmail, exim, postfix, even zmailer), and someone with a few years experience, you can always get a good system.
where did sendmail go? =)
Oh. .forward has nothing to do with "local delivery". You are correct in comparing procmail with maildrop. Those are the one we can classify as "local delivery system".
how can you say that? .forward provides delivery instructions for locally delivered mails so how come you say that it has nothing to do with "local delivery"?
Actually, .forward provides intra-MTA routing instructions, not delivery instructions :)
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.
You are mixing up 'mailertables' on sendmail, 'transports' on postfix and 'smtproutes' on qmail with .forward/.qmail local delivery instruction files.
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.
-_-. "intra-MTA routing" has nothing to do with local delivery...
Hmm...probably time to take this offlist if we continue :P
Nah. No one started screaming yet, or even compared us to Bryan. So we still have some room :)
Anyway, nice to see that Bryan is still on the list.