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[Barry Warsaw]

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On Sep 27, 2006, at 10:34 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 3:04 PM -0400 9/27/06, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>
>>  This appears to allow us to set up true virtual domains without
>>  having to encode destination aliases.  The trick though is that we
>>  would use Maildir delivery for all incoming messages, something I'm
>>  keen on switching to for Mailman 2.2 anyway.  Maildir is way more
>>  efficient than invoking a mail program per incoming message, Mailman
>>  already supports Maildir (although it isn't the default), and AFAIK
>>  all major MTAs support Maildir.
>
> Sendmail knows nothing of the mailbox delivery method.  That is left
> up to the Local Delivery Agent, which is usually /bin/mail and knows
> about 7th edition mbox-format, and not much else.  You could always
> substitute a different LDA (e.g., procmail), but that would not be a
> standard part of sendmail.

I'm definitely not proposing to get rid of deliver to program, so at  
worst, Sendmail users will continue to use this method.  Is there a  
better way to get the message from Sendmail into Mailman's incoming  
queue?

- -Barry

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