[CentOS] Postfix mail server procedure

Fri Nov 11 05:40:38 UTC 2011
Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>

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.
>>      
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> 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.