On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Toby Betts wrote: >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?
Hm. Mark Crispin's uw-imap does not log to /var/log/qmail/current - that's for sure. All received and sent emails are logged by qmail. Your IMAP server doesn't do any mail delivery in that sense. An IMAP server is used for fetching emails from the mail server. It can copy or store mails in folders for you, but it can not send email. That's an SMTP server's job (qmail-smtpd). :-) Perhaps your email client has been set up with the wrong SMTP server - so that the sent mail doesn't go through your mail server at all but perhaps directly from your client host. Either way, I can guarantee you that neither Binc IMAP nor uw-imap send email. :-) Andy -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | "It is better not to do something | than to do it poorly."
