22 Mar
2005
22 Mar
'05
6:48 p.m.
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 09:30:30AM -0500, Chris L. Franklin wrote:
"Dovecot doesn't create the mailbox; your local delivery agent may."
True and False, My MTA creates my inbox but anything else (meaning subfolders) would be upto the imap server to do so. A MTA's job is to deliver mail to the inbox or hand it off the another "app" to have it dealt with and delivered (or not).
Pedantically speaking, an MTA's job is to talk to other MTAs.
It's the job of an MDA (aka LDA) to do the delivery.
A given piece of software might act as an MTA and an MDA at times, but they are different pieces of the email system's architecture.
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