On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 11:48 -0600, rado wrote: > > > Sendmail sends mail & receives mail on port 25, as you have said. > > > It also handles delivery of mail (i.e. puts new mail in /var/spool/user) > > > hi Paul! > > Actually sendmail uses another program (the default in FC being > > procmail) to handle local delivery. Sendmail runs the program it's > > configured to use for local delivery to put the file > > in /var/spool/mail/user or wherever (e.g. it will be different for > > someone using the cyrus mail system). > > > > Paul. > yes, I am using sendmail and procmail the evolution to read/reply etc > k...so who actually dumps the mail in /var/spool/mail/rado/ sendmail or > proc? I think sendmail actually puts it in the spool dir... just want > that point clear in my head. Sendmail calls procmail to handle local delivery, so procmail is what eventually dumps the mail there (by default). If you are using evolution with a POP/IMAP server then the POP/IMAP server retrieves the mail from /var/spool/mail/rado on the POP/IMAP server and gives it to evolution, which then dumps the mail somewhere under ~/.evolution on the machine on which you're running evolution. > > > my main project here is bottom line, I am not interested in procmail's > > > spam filtering techniques right now, I just want procmail and rsync > > > > Procmail is no spam filter. > > oh, googling...I have just seen web page headers, like "using procmail > to filter spam", that sort of thing. that's why I referred it like so. Yes, I use procmail to filter spam. But that is only one of the things it can do. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
