-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:52:18AM +0800, Feizhou wrote: > >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? Exim itself does that. And vpopmail is not a blackbox solution :) > >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? =) Got lost on the "sound base system" part :) > >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. No, I'm not. .forward/.qmail will provide instructions for the MTA. They don't do delivery, so they are not a "local delivery system". > >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... Depend on the final routing target, which can be 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. LOL. - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDli0fpdyWzQ5b5ckRAoJ1AKCA98UqViKSoTSUA+k3SSnrppkcqACfekbk 3/lgskHjqjeO0VGZVeCJKmM= =MYZI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----