Re: LDA understanding

2013-03-15 Thread Tom Hendrikx
On 03/14/2013 05:07 PM, Kris Deugau wrote: Jerry wrote: Personally, I have no idea why anyone uses procmail. For relatively fine grain sorting of mail upon delivery, I use Dovecot and Sieve. From what I can ascertain, procmail hasn't even been maintained in over a decade. Sieve can't call

Re: LDA understanding

2013-03-15 Thread James Griffin
[- Thu 14.Mar'13 at 12:07:14 -0400 Kris Deugau :-] Jerry wrote: Personally, I have no idea why anyone uses procmail. For relatively fine grain sorting of mail upon delivery, I use Dovecot and Sieve. From what I can ascertain, procmail hasn't even been maintained in over a

Re: LDA understanding

2013-03-15 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:27:59 + James Griffin articulated: [- Thu 14.Mar'13 at 12:07:14 -0400 Kris Deugau :-] Jerry wrote: Personally, I have no idea why anyone uses procmail. For relatively fine grain sorting of mail upon delivery, I use Dovecot and Sieve. From

LDA understanding

2013-03-14 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i was just trying to understand LDA my understanding with postfix is that postfix is an MTA and procmail is an LDA to deliver email however i am using postfix alone and it is working great. it work with both system user and virtual users with no issue. it receive email and drop it to virtual user

Re: LDA understanding

2013-03-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/14/2013 4:44 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i was just trying to understand LDA my understanding with postfix is that postfix is an MTA and procmail is an LDA to deliver email however i am using postfix alone and it is working great. it work with both system user and virtual users with

Re: LDA understanding

2013-03-14 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:44:26 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan articulated: i was just trying to understand LDA my understanding with postfix is that postfix is an MTA and procmail is an LDA to deliver email however i am using postfix alone and it is working great. it work with both system user and

Re: LDA understanding

2013-03-14 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks guys, i am using dovecot but i didn't knew in technical term we call it LDA :P. but i thought procmail delivers emails to the user-folder only, which i misunderstood , if dovecot, procmail and courier are LDAs as i perceive from you emails. so no problem in understanding the functionality

Re: LDA understanding

2013-03-14 Thread Andreas K.
Στις , Jerry έγραψε: On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:44:26 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan articulated: i was just trying to understand LDA my understanding with postfix is that postfix is an MTA and procmail is an LDA to deliver email however i am using postfix alone and it is working great. it work with

Re: LDA understanding

2013-03-14 Thread Larry Stone
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Jerry wrote: Personally, I have no idea why anyone uses procmail. For relatively fine grain sorting of mail upon delivery, I use Dovecot and Sieve. From what I can ascertain, procmail hasn't even been maintained in over a decade. I realize this gets away from Postfix per

Re: LDA understanding

2013-03-14 Thread Kris Deugau
Jerry wrote: Personally, I have no idea why anyone uses procmail. For relatively fine grain sorting of mail upon delivery, I use Dovecot and Sieve. From what I can ascertain, procmail hasn't even been maintained in over a decade. Sieve can't call outside programs (eg SpamAssassin) by design.

Re: LDA understanding

2013-03-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.03.2013 17:07, schrieb Kris Deugau: Jerry wrote: Personally, I have no idea why anyone uses procmail. For relatively fine grain sorting of mail upon delivery, I use Dovecot and Sieve. From what I can ascertain, procmail hasn't even been maintained in over a decade. Sieve can't call

Re: LDA understanding

2013-03-14 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
On 2013-03-14 Reindl Harald wrote: Am 14.03.2013 17:07, schrieb Kris Deugau: Jerry wrote: Personally, I have no idea why anyone uses procmail. For relatively fine grain sorting of mail upon delivery, I use Dovecot and Sieve. From what I can ascertain, procmail hasn't even been maintained in

Re: LDA understanding

2013-03-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.03.2013 21:04, schrieb Ansgar Wiechers: On 2013-03-14 Reindl Harald wrote: Am 14.03.2013 17:07, schrieb Kris Deugau: Jerry wrote: Personally, I have no idea why anyone uses procmail. For relatively fine grain sorting of mail upon delivery, I use Dovecot and Sieve. From what I can

Re: LDA understanding

2013-03-14 Thread Kris Deugau
Reindl Harald wrote: Am 14.03.2013 17:07, schrieb Kris Deugau: Sieve can't call outside programs (eg SpamAssassin) by design. IMO the inability to call any external filtering programs (even from a restricted whitelist) makes overall mail filtering significantly harder By harder I mean that

Re: LDA understanding

2013-03-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.03.2013 21:31, schrieb Kris Deugau: Reindl Harald wrote: usually sieve comes AFTER SpamAssassin because it is a broken setup using a POST queue filter because it results in become a backscatter and you are usually not permitted by law accept a message with 250 OK and drop it silent