On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 04:24:29PM -0500, Tamara Temple wrote: > > On Jul 6, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Paul M Foster wrote: > >Postfix is a *nix program which can be connected to whatever > >program you > >use to grab mail with. With postfix, you write "recipes" which dictate > >what will be done with a piece of incoming mail, based on whatever > >characteristics you choose. Think of it as the spam controls in > >Firefox > >or Outlook, but on steroids. Typically, postfix will either drop a > >piece > >of spam on the floor, mark it in some way your mail client will > >understand, or file it an a separate folder. Moreover, it's not > >just for > >spam. It can be used to filter out duplicate emails, file copies of > >emails under different folders by subject, etc. > > > > Actually, what you're describing sounds much more like procmail than > postfix. Postfix is a MTA - Mail Transfer Agent, a replacement for > Sendmail on Unix systems. It does SMTP and local delivery of mail, > and can hook into procmail to further process mail for a given user. > Procmail *can* act as a MTA, but only in the local context. >
Well, DUH! I can't believe I wrote this whole email about Postfix, while instead carefully explaining what procmail was! Maybe I need more rest than I thought. My apologies for the waste of bandwidth. Tamara's explanation is exactly correct. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
