[imp] IMP and Sendmail

Lars Hecking lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie
Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:05:25 +0100


Jorge Izquierdo writes:
> I would like to install my IMP with a sendmail MTA. I know that i only have
> to worry about the IMAP server I have to use, but this is the question: as
> Maildir format is not supported by sendmail and I used Courier-Imap that run
> wioth this mailbox format, what new IMAP server should I choose for my new
> configuration to allow sendmail to deliver messages on the mailboxes and
> IMAP to retrieve them?
 
 sendmail does not do final delivery, the LDA does. That's the program
 specified as Mlocal in sendmail.cf. One possibility for a maildir-aware
 LDA is procmail.  Another one is maildrop, see
 http://www.flounder.net/~mrsam/maildrop/.

 Unfortunately, the only free imapd out there supporting mbox is UW imap.