Re: Which MTA/MDA?

From: BubbaT <root@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:07:06 -0400

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:19:55 -0400, Maxwell Lol wrote:

BubbaT <root@xxxxxxx> writes:

This sounds like stuff that can be done with a MUA (Mail User Agent).
For example, procmail. It has nothing to do with the protocol for
transferring mail from one machine to another.

Uhm. procmail is not a MUA it's a MDA.
http://partmaps.org/era/procmail/mini-faq.html#description
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