Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
So fetchmail itself isn't the MTA, it only acts as the transporter from an external mailbox to your local MTA, in this case Postfix.
Your correct, fetchmail is sort of a pretend MTA, a 'shim' if you will to get mail from point A to point B (point B bieng an MTA). Basically a transporter :)
.....So, like Fetchmail is the transporter of incoming mail does Postfix, how is outgoing email sent? Does Postfix use an inbuilt SMTP to transport sent mail?
Postfix is an MTA, thus SMTP is its native tongue. OK :) So I don;t need to setup a transporter to send mail as postfix will do it, like I had to setup Fetchmail to receive email?
So Postfix will invoke both SA and Clamav and then pass the mail to the IMAP store.
Yes, postfix recieves mail and runs it though a 'milter' process, which may contain SA, clamav, whatever.... gets the mail back and then drops it somewhere. Aaah, FANTASTIC, now I understand the process and what does what.
Thank you Adam, and others, for bearing with me. I have just read or rather tried to read the Postfix manual and boy did I step in the deep-end when I wanted to setup a mailserver :) Such is the price of tuition. I'm going to refer to the Postfix-friends list for help on Postfix. -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================