Gervase Markham wrote:
>
> <shrug> I have no idea what "movemail" is :-)
Movemail is unix's "native" way of supporting mail. I guess you could
liken this to supporting MAPI on windows, except that it has a slightly
different feature set and movemail has a couple of decades more of
history behind it :)
4.x had it, and almost every other unix mailer has it too.
On my unix system I'm lucky because my internal movemail is simply set
up to forward to an external smtp server anyway. For incoming mail I set
up a local IMAP server, which also lets me access my mail at home.
However, it appears to be implemented - at least, searching for
"movemail" in bugzilla results in a bunch of bugs[1] in the
implementation, rather than a bug saying "implement this". Perhaps one
or more of these bugs is actually a blocker bug that renders the feature
useless - someone who actually uses it will have to comment on this I'm
afraid.
Stuart.
[1]
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&short_desc=movemail&short_desc_type=substring&cmdtype=doit
(hope this works, I obliterated all the fields from the query string
that seemed useless... I hope it doesn't get wordwrapped too)
