Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:08:12 +0000 From: "Aleksey I. Yurlov" <webmaster@ptt.ru> To: Simon J Mudd <sjmudd@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Offtopic about postfix. Message-ID: <3C8CE47C.9060706@ptt.ru> References: <3C8C9BDB.6010409@ptt.ru> <861yerfdxc.fsf@unicorn.ea4els.ampr.org>
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Ah!
Simon, sorry...my pure had!
Ofcourse, postfix didn't know anything about it...
I'm using cucipop and talk about POP3....
Simon J Mudd wrote:
>webmaster@ptt.ru ("Aleksey I. Yurlov") writes:
>
>>There is very strange situation with postfix mta, I think that it is
>>postfix.
>>
>
>>Situation is:
>>Match mail clients (Mozilla, Outlook) have the opportunity to save
>>messages in mailbox of mail server. For this day I thought, that this
>>service client-dependable, but when I try to check with this option
>>mail from Outlook Express in os WindowsXP (only this os) from my local
>>Postfix server on FreeBSD 4.2-R box - it didnt' work. With other (in
>>the network) mail servers - this option works with this client
>>fine. May be there are some additional tunings with Postfix or may be
>>there are some RFC's about this "save messages handshakes", patches?
>>May be /dev/hands?
>>
>
>Remote clients can only use postfix by talking SMTP.
>
>SMTP doesn't know about "local mailboxes" it just knows about
>addresses. Postfix is no different it hides the information about the
>local mailboxes which exist and no you can't temporarily use it to
>store messages in a mailbox.
>
>In that respect sendmail, qmail and other SMTP servers are no
>different.
>
>Perhaps you are talking about an imap server which can I think do this.
>
>Simon
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>Madrid, Spain. email: sjmudd@pobox.com, Postfix RPM Packager
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