On Friday, November 11, 2011 01:31 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 21:12 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > >> On 11/10/11 4:48 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: >> >>>> You don't mention a mail store [IMAP Server]? Such as Cyrus IMAP. >>>> >>>>> Something for Postfix to deliver the mail too. >>>>> >>>>> >>> Mail store != imap server. Mail store = structure for mboxes/maildirs. >>> >> indeed, reader protocol servers like imap, pop3, are a seperate category >> from the traditional MTA, MDA, MUA triad. in a sense, they are a MUA >> proxy or service, but they aren't the MUA, thats the client application >> (Thunderbird, etc). In spite of some claims to the contrary[1], they >> aren't the MDA, thats something like procmail which the MTA uses to >> deliver the mail to a mailbox. >> >> >> >> [1] first google hit on related keywords claimed imap/pop were part of >> the MDA. >> > ---- > LMTP > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Mail_Transfer_Protocol > > That's still nothing to do with imap/pop3 servers. dovecot provides an LDA for just that purpose but it is separate from dovecot's imap/pop3 servers.