Quoth Ralph Zeller, on Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:22:12 -0700: > http://mutt.blackfish.org.uk/storage/
This document is illustrative. I've learned from it, for one thing, that the system spool file can be read directly as an "inbox folder" by MUAs. That blew my mind, since I had presumed the spool file is the domain of the MTA alone. (Postfix, I have noticed, will sometimes mv that file and save an empty one in its place, temporarily; which seems likely to trip up an MUA that happens to be reading it just then.) But this would obviate the need for a local POP server, which is good. I'm also learning that, while the terms MUA, MDA, etc., are fairly straightforward per se, their implementations don't always fit into any one of those boxes. It seems fetchmail and procmail, for example, are not best thought of strictly as an MRA and an MDA, respectively, but rather as general components in a "mail delivery chain". If fetchmail can pass emails to procmail (bypassing the "MTA"), then its relation to procmail is that of an MTA. Sorry if I've been a trifle loquacious. As an end user, I don't find these email systems all that simple; and as a Web developer, I find them significantly more difficult than Web server software. But I'm learning. --Jason V. C. -- I finally beat the Internet. The end guy is hard. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
