James Knott said the following on 08/28/2011 10:06 AM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
So I'm wondering if there is a way to get postfix out of the loop for INCOMING mail.
On my home network, I've been running UoW imap and fetchmail for years. AFAIK, I'm not running Postfix, which I thought was a replacement for Sendmail.
Indeed. My point. If you are the only user there is no need for Postfix to process incoming mail. Outgoing, that's another matter: queueing, determining which SMTP server, error handling. Yes I suppose I could get by with Thunderbird if and only if this was the only station on the LAN generating outgoing mail and I didn't care about error handling, and more. At the moment, for incoming mail, I have fetchmail at the front end feeding in to the MTA mda '/usr/bin/procmail -d %T' You'll see that in many HowTos. Nothing remarkable there. But I'm also running Dovecot. It has its own LDA. If you use that it indexes the mail as it arrives. But my procmail delivers to many folders. I can't see how I can use Dovecot's LDA with that. -- Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. --Henry Louis Mencken -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org