On Jun 18, 2011, at 9:18 AM, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote: > 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
Ah, right, I'll add these to MacPorts soon. > I've also found postfixadmin - http://postfixadmin.sourceforge.net/ > and am in the process of writing a Portfile for it Postfixadmin isn't bad. Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
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