-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 12:22:39PM +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. I mean those "install this package/use this script" solutions that set everything up for you, configure, start services and so on. > >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. Perfect. I didn't even remember qmail-local. From what I remember (obviously wrong) local delivered was done by maildrop. > >>>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. Actually, exim gives you fine grain control over the whole process, which actually helps you to understand who it works behind the scenes (and sometimes makes configuration a hair-pulling experience). I can't really say how the whole transport-routing process works for qmail. I tried to understand how it worked once, and gave up after about 20 minutes. And I guess here I reach the limit of tolerance the other members have shown me on this issue, so I'll start replying off-list :) []s - -- 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) iD8DBQFDlm0+pdyWzQ5b5ckRAlFNAJ49j+q/4F3brS0dbJIT1Mix/QzIYQCeNBB8 i3dRgcBslMi2Ewf28A3J5NQ= =uphq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----