On 1/10/2008, Andrew Falanga (af300wsm@gmail.com) wrote:
What I wasn't clear on was how the mail actually ended up into a persons "INBOX." This process was unknown to me. It was educational to me that it was sendmail that handles this.
Actually, it is the DELIVERY AGENT that is responsible for 'delivering' mail to the final resting place (Inbox). I have no clue about delivery agents with sendmail, but postfix can use a few different ones (its own standard LDA (Local Delivery Agent) and the VDA (Virtual...), and Maildrop, but I'm sure there are probably more.
If the dovecot wiki isn't going to explain these things entirely, because it's not dovecot's responsibility to do so, that's fine. Shouldn't the wiki explain, however, that, "Knowledge of what mbox, INBOX, MAILDIR, etc., is assumed. If you don't understand these terms, see (some links)?"
Again, this is ridiculous. Each persons level of knowledge is different. The author of a wiki like you describe would have to write to the lowest common denominator - which means he would be authoring a dictionary and a thesaurus all at the same time. Don't you see how ludicrous that is?
In our world, to know how to do something means you've got to set it up. But to set it up, you've got to be familiar with it, but to be familiar with it, you've got to set it up.
So go for it! You have a brain. You have a library somehwere close by. You have bookstores. You have fingers. You have a computer. You have an internet connection. You have google. You have amazon. Now go forth and USE THEM!
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Best regards,
Charles