Re: Recent spam increase
On 2006-10-24 01:32:11 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:18:53 +0000, Pollywog <linux-debian@shadypond.com> said:
> > I was looking at documentation for mailagent (I use Procmail atm)
> > but I could not find any mention of IMAP. Does mailagent do IMAP?
>
> mailagent, like procmail, is not a MUA. It is a mail
> filter -- just like procmail. Neither one of them does IMAP. It fits
> in between the maildrop and the MUA -- so, if you use fetchmail, then
> mailagent steps in and handles mail sent in by fetchmail.
Not just MUAs do IMAP. MDAs can do it too. And procmail is also a
MDA (according to its documentation). However procmail is no longer
developed and is too old to support IMAP. But couldn't mailagent
support IMAP via a Perl module?
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