Charles Marcus wrote:
On 4/8/2009, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI (eduardo@kalinowski.com.br) wrote:
It's local because it stores e-mails somewhere in the local filesystem hierarchy, instead of sending it to a remote machine via SMTP (or any other protocol).
But thats not the generally accepted meaning of local in context of email servers.
I don't know what is the generally accepted, but to me virtual users are just as local as real users, they just don't have a proper account (because there is no need to).
Besides, this isn't true if you're using NFS...
Not quite... in the point of view of a program, writing to a NFS share or a filesystem in the same machine is the same thing, the program doesn't even have to know that it's storing a file in another machine. And mail is not being "transported", which would involve another MTA that would further handle the e-mail.
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