Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > > On Jun 17, 2011, at 3:58 AM, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote: > >> Mail.app is a MUA (Mail User Agent) >> postfix is a MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) >> completely similiar in fuctionality to sendmail >> actually, Mail.app isn't able to talk to postfix at all unless one >> installs a POP3/IMAP server also - this is why one also needs Dovecot > > Mail.app sends messages using smtp and postfix speaks smtp.
Yeah ... I had posted when I realised my mistake ... I was thinking of the receiving end when I wrote it :-( MUAs do speak smtp when _sending_ but not when _receiving_ ! > Postfix does not speak pop3 or imap. > Postfix CAN use dovecot to deliver local messages to a file system. > > > dovecot.org <http://dovecot.org> has some recipes to get you started. > http://wiki1.dovecot.org/HowTo > > I use something similar to this one "Postfix and Dovecot with MySQL and > TLS/SSL, Postgrey and DSPAM". > http://johnny.chadda.se/article/mail-server-howto-postfix-and-dovecot-with-mysql-and-tlsssl-postgrey-and-dspam/ > > Here is the MacPorts ports with variants I'm currently using. > dovecot2 @2.0.13_0+mysql5 (active) > dovecot2-antispam @hg.43880985e3dd_0 (active) > dovecot2-sieve @0.2.3_0 (active) > dspam-devel @git-20110520_0+debug+mysql5 (active) > mysql5 @5.1.57_0 (active) > mysql5-server @5.1.57_0 (active) > postfix @2.8.3_0+dovecot_sasl+mysql5+pcre+tls (active) > sqlgrey @1.8.0-rc2_0+mysql (active) > > sqlgrey is a fork of Postgrey and supports sql storage. These don't seem to be in MacPorts ??? sqlgrey dovecot2-antispam dspam-devel I've also found postfixadmin - http://postfixadmin.sourceforge.net/ and am in the process of writing a Portfile for it > > Regards, > Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla) > -- Bjarne D Mathiesen København N ; Danmark ; Europa ---------------------------------------------------------------------- denne besked er skrevet i et totalt M$-frit miljø MacOS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard ; 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 ; 16GB 1067MHz DDR3 http://webadmin.mathiesen.info/ _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
