QMail, Courier-IMAP, Squirrelmail

Bill Campbell linux-sxs
Mon May 17 11:59:56 PDT 2004


On Mon, Mar 01, 2004, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:00:41 -0800
>Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004, M.W. Chang wrote:
>> >>That's not it.  We're running Courier-imap on all our systems
>> >>(which does Maildir).
>> >
>> >Can sendmail deliver messages into maildir format? Or has it to be done 
>> >via procmail?
>> 
>> Postfix can deliver to Maildir.  I can't say for sure about sendmail since
>> I've been avoiding it since the early '90s, but I would be surprised if it
>> couldn't.
>
>Then I bet you are going to be surprised. BTW. O'Reilly have a new book on
>Procmail. I have not had a look at it, but it is geared toward those who
>want to replace sendmail all together. Seems MAC OS-X have done this.

I don't use procmail, but use Chip Salzenberg's deliver instead.  I like
deliver because it allows one to use scripts in the language of choice (I
use perl) rather than having to learn yet another set of rules.

Bill
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