From: Matt Howard <mhoward@sigins.com>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What determiens where email is stored?
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:31:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c80iic$qep$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 16547.51744.283654.747686@cerise.nosuchdomain.co.uk
Glynn Clements wrote:
> The above is incorrect.
>
> Sendmail doesn't write to mail spools, and doesn't need to know where
> they reside. It just feeds the message to the delivery agent (e.g.
> procmail).
>
> The _PATH_MAILDIR macro is for the mail.local program, which is
> "bundled" with sendmail. Unless you're actually using mail.local (and
> Adam indicated that he's using procmail), it isn't relevant.
>
You're right -- I didn't notice he wasn't using the default local
mailer.
--
Matt Howard <mhoward@sigins.com>
Superior Insurance - Technical Services
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-13 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-13 13:38 What determiens where email is stored? Adam Lang
2004-05-13 13:34 ` Upendra L. Gandhi
2004-05-13 13:48 ` Adam Lang
2004-05-13 13:40 ` Marshall Lake
2004-05-13 13:49 ` Adam Lang
2004-05-13 17:05 ` Matt Howard
2004-05-13 19:18 ` Glynn Clements
2004-05-13 19:31 ` Matt Howard [this message]
2004-05-13 19:43 ` Aitor Benito
2004-05-13 20:37 ` Adam Lang
2004-05-13 18:48 ` Glynn Clements
2004-05-13 18:20 ` A. R. Vener
2004-05-13 19:56 ` Scott Taylor
2004-05-13 20:12 ` Adam Lang
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