On Mon, 2016-07-25 at 09:43 +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > What is still missing is the purpose. I grasp that MRAs and MUAs have a duty > which rsync is relieved of, but why? (A similar duty is to delete any old > file > left behind in tmp. This is just housekeeping which any process can do.)
rsync and "mail retrieval agents" (this actually isn't the right term either) are TOTALLY different animals. The difference lies in the fact that software agents such as imapd and pop3d are designed to be part of a mail processing chain. The input to these agents is a mail storage structure, mbox, maildir, maildir++ or whatever. The output is designed to conform to a RFC-standardized communications protocol (IMAP, POP3). These protocols deal with _messages_ and are independent of the details of the mail storage structure. rsync, on the other hand, is a file management utility which should make faithful reproductions of file system structures. It doesn't know a maildir from a website or a python library. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Behold! Our way lies through a FMP Computer Services | dark wood whence in which 512-259-1190 | weirdness may wallow!” http://www.fmp.com | --Beauregard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
