Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > -----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 :) Ah, i wondered what you meant. >>>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". Hmm...ok. dot-whatever != local delivery agent. I guess I should say it boils down to what qmail-local and its dot-qmail mechanism does compared with the pairing of sendmail's local mailer and its dot-forward mechanism and postfix's local (that is what its LDA is called) support of sendmail's dot-forward. > > >>>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. =D. Got me there. The only exception being qmail...once a message is queued, its routing has been set whereas you can still change that if it were postfix, sendmail and I guess exim.