RE: Expiring old mail in Maildir/

From: Troy Settle (troy_at_psknet.com)
Date: 05/27/03

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Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 07:18:43 -0400

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
    > [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Swiger
    > Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 4:31 PM

    >
    > (*): I find the distinction between the various components of a mail
    > system-- the "MTA", "LDA", "MUA", and related software like a
    > "POP3" or
    > "IMAP" server-- to be well-defined and meaningful. Exim handles
    > per-user quotas for mailboxes. However, the part of Exim which does
    > SMTP-- the MTA-- doesn't perform local delivery, does it?
    >

    Local delivery, remote delivery, who cares? Mail is being transferred.
    If you want to use sendmail as a point of reference, then yes, sendmail
    does handle local delivery. It does so with exactly one delivery
    mechinism: the pipe.

    I would argue that the MTA (mail transfer agent) has nothing at all to
    do with SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol), which is simply a
    mechanism for clients to talk to servers and for servers to talk to
    other servers.

    What if I run sendmail in such a way that it's not listening for network
    connections? Is it still an MTA? 

    --
  Troy Settle
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