Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server

From: Gary (gv-list-freebsdquestions_at_mygirlfriday.info)
Date: 09/30/03

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    Hi Chris,

    --On Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:03:33 AM -0700 Chris Pressey
    <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> wrote:

    >> Since qmail has a sendmail wrapper to begin with, as noted above, and
    >> it is put in as a replacement (marking the original to sendmail.old),
    >> in/usr/lib/sendmail, and /usr/sbin/sendmail why would you need the
    >> above in mailer.conf?
    >
    > You don't strictly need it, of course, but I find that FreeBSD's MTA
    > wrapper is easier to use - it wasn't written just for qmail, and it
    > doesn't involve directly messing with the sendmail executable.

    Ah, okay..

    >> > This makes setting up non-sendmail mailers quite a bit easier. IIRC
    >> > the PORT_NOTES file in the qmail port has more information about
    >> > this.
    >>
    >> Any non-sendmail mailer, I am assuming you mean those which require
    >> the input of an actual SMTP source, can of course be set for SMTP as
    >> localhost, 127.0.0.1, or the actual LAN IP address.

    > Er - you mean running two different MTA's on different interfaces on the
    > same machine? Sure, I guess you could do that, if you wanted...

    Actually, I was referring to running a MUA that does not use the Sendmail
    switch automatically, as Mutt would use, but something like KMail, or
    whatever, which requires one to put in the SMTP address (IIRC).

    > I'm just referring to how FreeBSD's MTA wrapper lets you switch between
    > sendmail, qmail, and any other sendmail-compatible MTA (say, Postfix)
    > without too much effort.

    Okay, I am now seeing a better appreciation of how this FBSD MTA wrapper
    works, allowing one to switch MTAs almost on the fly... cool <g>

    Thanks for your input.. 

    -- 
Gary
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