Re: procmail/lmtp

Subject: Re: procmail/lmtp
From: Amos Gouaux (amos+lists.postfixutdallas.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 23 2000 - 11:04:49 CST

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>>>>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:56:41 +0000,
>>>>> Michael Herrmann <herrmanminformatik.tu-muenchen.de> (mh) writes:

mh> Sieve is built into Cyrus IMAP. Some features of Sieve (e.g. vacation)
mh> only work when feeding mail into Cyrus via LMTP.

Because currently that's the only way for deliver to retain the
envelope sender, which the vacation extension relies upon.

mh> Its just the way cyrus is implemented. CMU is developing Cyrus
mh> mainly for sendmail since that is what they use.

I don't know if that's entirely true. The RFC for LMTP (2033) was
written by John Myers while he was at CMU. Apparently they not too
long ago looked at Postfix, but remained with Sendmail because of
some requirements that I don't remember.

Amos

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