From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 28 06:44:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC9E216A41C for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 06:44:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 979A743D1F for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 06:44:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id j5S6jMb56853; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 23:45:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Ken Ebling" , "Gary Kline" Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 23:44:13 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <0C98FCFE-3697-4EBD-90FF-8A64FFCA1F44@idealinter.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: web mail interface program. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 06:44:39 -0000 >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Ken Ebling >Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 10:44 PM >To: Gary Kline >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: web mail interface program. > > >The only catch with courier-imap is that it will not read mail from >mbox mailboxes (/var/spool/mail). You have to be using Maildir >mailboxes, which I'm not sure sendmail will do natively. Sendmail does not do mbox mailboxes natively. The mail.local program, or /bin/mail or other variation, that is called by Sendmail is what talks to the mailboxes on the system. The mail.local program supplied with sendmail is an old leftover from BSD days where Sendmail was originally developed. It is a very simple program and is only included as a matter of convenience. >I know you >can use Sendmail -> Procmail -> Maildir though. > Yes, that is the way that you do it. Procmail is a better delivery agent than mail.local by a long shot. Ted