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Jonathan Walther krooger@debian.org
Sat, 31 Jul 1999 16:41:32 -0700 (PDT)


You mean sendmail doesn't append a mail to a users local mailbox?  Eg, mail
for user foo goes to /var/spool/mail/foo ?  How does it get there then?  Why
the extra level of complexity?  Why not do the right thing by default, but
provide a "hook" where you can insert a call to a program that provides an
alternate delivery method?

On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Ivan Kohler wrote:
> FWIW, traditional MTA design is to hand off local mail to a local delivery
> agent (mail, mail.local, procmail, deliver, etc.) and not know anything
> about how messages are stored locally.