- On 2003.06.23, in 16EEDAF0-A5A8-11D7-8FD0-000A279898BC@mac.com,
- "R.Charles Sweeten" rsweeten@mac.com wrote:
aaahhhh.....so what you're telling me is that dovecot does not replace sendmail as an MTA, it only provides the upper level functions. yes?
I'm not sure what you mean by "upper level", but it provides only IMAP and POP services -- just the client-fetch protocols. An MTA provides receipt and and relaying services via different protocols, and dovecot does not do that. It's not really a matter of higher- or lower-order activity, but of directionality -- they're just different functions.
You won't find many MTAs that provide IMAP and POP, either -- I can think only of such monsters as Exchange and Notes. Some MTAs (such as Courier) are designed to integrate with particular IMAP and POP servers, but those are separate components and optional integrations, AFAIK.
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