On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:40:16AM -0400, Toby Betts wrote: > I've been wanting to try Binc for quite some time, and I finally took > the plunge yesterday. It works really well. I like having an IMAP server > that can handle the Maildir format and not be as bristly as Courier (yuck). > > I'm curious to know why Binc doesn't log its sent mail. I have a qmail > installation set up according to lifewithqmail.org, and under IMAP-UW > (shudder) I could check qmail's log in /var/log/qmail/current to see the > response from any receiving mail servers to which I've recently sent a > message. Binc doesn't seem to log sent mail, at least not in the same > way. The mailing list archives don't seem to have mentioned this topic > before. Will anyone be kind enough to explain this to me?
Simply because binc doesn't send any mail. :) Courier is intended to be a complete mail server system, among other things it includes qmail as the MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) and a special IMAP server written by Inter7 called Courier-IMAP that, like binc, can handle the Maildir format used by qmail. The logs in /var/log/qmail/current were put there by qmail, not by Courier-IMAP. You should still be running qmail (or another MTA) or you will have a hard time getting any mail into your system. :) Binc aims to replace Courier-IMAP, not the entire Courier mail server. Hope this helps clear things out. //Peter
