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Re: sendmail, deliver and procmail



>>>>> "L" == Lukas Nellen <lukas@teorica0.ifisicacu.unam.mx> writes:

L> Does sendmail have to depend on deliver? Sendmail comes with its
L> own mail.local to deliver to a local mailbox. Wouldn't it be
L> sufficient to use this as a default local mailer?

I think the problem here is that mail.local does not respect the
Debian mailbox locking convention, so you risk serious mailbox
corruption if you use it.  deliver's pretty tiny anyway...

L> To add more luxury, it would be nice if sendmailconfig can detect
L> if deliver and/or procmail are available and offer those as an
L> alternative local mailer to use. Sendmail can suggest or recommend
L> one r both (where my favourite is procmail - but that is a matter
L> of taste).

This might be OK, I don't know.  I've been meaning to look in to mail
filters one of these days...

--
Rob


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