MTA -> MDA handoff? protocol?

[Ivan Kohler]

On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 07:26:15PM -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> 
> Ok, so if it is standard for sendmail et al to hand off the message to mail,
> deliver, or procmail for "local delivery", how does it do it?  With what
> permissions?   Does it just pipe the whole message to the MDA and exit?  Is
> there some extra OOB information it passes along?  How?

Hmm, with sendmail, I think you get to define "local mailer definitions" 
or something like that, so each can be slightly different.  With qmail, if
you want to plug in procmail you just use it as the "alias empty" 
definition upon qmail startup.  See qmail-start(8) et al.  The qmail
distribution with Debian includes a program, `qmail-procmail' which does
this for procmail.

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