Magnus wrote:
On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 11:10 AM, Lee wrote:
You're saying you can't read directly from the spool?
You could if you were using an MUA that had filesystem level access to the spool.
Most don't.
But some do, most notably mutt. And we only need 1 to make my point pertinent. :-)
I was out Friday and just got done playing catch up... your point isn't really pertinent to this discussion. Yes, sendmail can deliver to the spool, and, yes, Mutt can read directly from the spool, as long as Mutt is being run on the machine that contains that spool file.
So, if you have a machine with just sendmail, and every one of your mails users has an shell account on that machine then you can deliver and read mail with just sendmail. But if you want to have a mail server that allows clients to connect over the network to read their mail (without being logged into a shell account on the server), just like the Exchange/Outlook combination does... then you need more than sendmail on the server to do it.
Deceased horse has been beaten sufficently, no?
-- Daniel Monjar
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