Re: Newbie question...

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2001.08.30 13:07:51 +0100 Toralf Lund wrote:
> On 2001.08.30 11:40 Carlos Morgado wrote:
> > 

> > 
> > Why would an MTA care for what the archane way a user likes his mail to
> > be
> > sorted ? That's a MUA function that can be moved to deliver for
> > efficiency.
> > The MTA shouldn't be involved in mail sorting.
> Actually, like someone else pointed out, this is really "MDA"
> functionality.
> 
"deliver" yeah :) old-fart sendmail terminology ehheh :)

> A simple reason why I prefer this is that I want the messages to be
> delivered/sorted in the same way no matter what client I use. I use IMAP
> for everything, of course, which also means that MUA filtering would update
> the _server_ layout, which doesn't seem right to me.
> 
exim does this on it's own ? or uses procmail ?

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