On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Evan Platt wrote:
At 12:20 PM 12/4/2006, you wrote:
How do novice end users, neophytes examine things and determine
what is the mail delivery agent ?... as a general understanding
of the particular system at hand.
This is with respect to setting up a secondary mail file for
screened spam type messages that later can be checked over for
any false positives.
Unless I'm not understanding you... You could attempt to telnet to the mail
server on port 25, some will say for example:
220 example.com ESMTP Postfix
The way I read the message (which may also be incorrect), Don wants to
know about the MDA (for instance procmail), not the MTA (like
sendmail, postfix, etc.). While your MTA and MDA can often be the
same software, this isn't necessarily true.
In any case, the best first step is to determine the MTA using the
method Evan suggests. Once you know the MTA, you can probably check the
config files. For example, grep for the string "Mlocal" in
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf and if it makes reference to procmail, the MDA
is procmail.
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