[pmmail-list] SMTP path was Digest (08/21/2003 09:01) (#2003-588)

[John Angelico]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 09:02:04 -0400, brandonk@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
wrote:

>
>Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 04:15:24 -0400
>From: "Ralph Cohen" <rpcohen@neurotron.com>
>Subject: Re: [pmmail-list] SMTP mail receive
>
>On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:51:34 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:
>
>>Simple. Your MTA (or local SMTP server) receives mail from your ISP or
>>wherever and puts it into a defined directory like
>>/var/spool/mail/<user>
>>
>>You then tell PMMail to get it from there, PMMail hoovers up absolutely
>>everything in that directory (so don't put anything but delivered mail
>>there) and incorporates it into its own account directory structure.
>>

[retrieved from Brian's original response]
>>IOW, PMMail is not able to listen on port 25 to receive mail....

Well, it's not necessary for PMMail to do that, if it can access mail in a
path somewhere on the LAN or local machine. Who needs ports and TCP
overhead if you can move it directly as a file?

>
>It can also be used to move mail between different accounts.  A folder
>containing mail in one account can set as the SMTP address for a second
>account which will then retrieve those messages from that folder into
>the second account's Inbox.  This gets around a limitation in the
>PMMail filters which does not enable the filtering of email from one
>account to another.
>
>Ralph Cohen

It's effective but still a kludge since there is only one path - thus it's
a one-to-one transfer rather than a many-to-one or many-to-many...


Best regards
John Angelico
OS/2 SIG
os2@melbpc.org.au or 
talldad@kepl.com.au
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