Thanks guys, i am using dovecot but i didn't knew in technical term we call it LDA :P. but i thought procmail delivers emails to the user-folder only, which i misunderstood , if dovecot, procmail and courier are LDAs as i perceive from you emails. so no problem in understanding the functionality of procmail as i am already using dovecot.
Thanks, On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Jerry <postfix-u...@seibercom.net> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:44:26 +0500 > Muhammad Yousuf Khan articulated: > >> i was just trying to understand LDA my understanding with postfix is >> that postfix is an MTA and procmail is an LDA to deliver email however >> i am using postfix alone and it is working great. it work with both >> system user and virtual users with no issue. it receive email and drop >> it to virtual user directory or system user directory. >> so my question if postfix delivering the message to all the users then >> what is the need of procmail/LDA? > > Personally, I have no idea why anyone uses "procmail". For relatively > fine grain sorting of mail upon delivery, I use Dovecot and Sieve. From > what I can ascertain, procmail hasn't even been maintained in over a > decade. > > Just my 2¢ on the matter. > > -- > Jerry ✌ > postfix-u...@seibercom.net > _____________________________________________________________________ > TO REPORT A PROBLEM see http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail > TO (UN)SUBSCRIBE see http://www.postfix.org/lists.html >
