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[Ivan Kohler]

On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 04:41:32PM -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> You mean sendmail doesn't append a mail to a users local mailbox?  Eg, mail
> for user foo goes to /var/spool/mail/foo ?

Absolutely not.  Sendmail knows nothing about local delivery.

> How does it get there then?

Umm, the local delivery agent puts it there.

> Why the extra level of complexity?

Dude, haven't you ever heard of the UNIX toolkit approach?

> 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?

Kind of what qmail does; it provide a default local delivery agent...
.except _everything_ in qmail is a hook as it's so modular. 

> 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.
> 

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