It was Wed, 16 May 2001 10:02:11 -0500 when Mark Johnson wrote:
I'm confused about the relationships between procmail, sendmail, and
postfix. Sendmail is an SMTP agent for sending mail while procmail is a
mail filter which filters incoming and outgoing mail, however, postfix is
the actual mail daemon that allows you to check mail via POP3 and allows you
to send mail via sendmail. Do I understand this correctly. Can someone
explain how these programs used together or are the used together at all?
Sendmail and Postfix are actually the same kind of thing. Both are Mail
Transport Agents. They deliver e-mail.
Procmail can be used to sort e-mails into different folders, forward it,
delete it, copy it, etc. Procmail can be called to run from within the config
files of Sendmail or Postfix.
After the sorting etc etc your e-mail program will pick up the mails in the
separate mail folders.
Hope this clears you up.
Paul
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