On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 19:15:44 +0000 Kevin Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> basic stuff i know - but... > > esmtpd - what does it do? does it receive email from all sources or forward > from email clients? > Hello Kevin As far as I have understood, esmtpd is the part that deals with esmtp connections. It is called by couriertcpd when a connection request arrives and then talks esmtp with the other side - this may be other servers trying to deliver to a local account, or this may be clients (MUA's) trying to either relay through your server (i.e. send mail to non-local domains) or deliver mail for a local account. esmtpd will, if I'm not mistaken, not write the mail to disk, but pass it on to another program (maildrop?) to accomplish that. It's functionality may be compared to that of any MTA (sendmail, postfix ...) krgds /markus
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