From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28097 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Fully-qualifying Email addresses in outgoing mail Date: 10 Dec 1999 14:41:02 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165006 28087 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:50:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:50:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA29093 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:41:40 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB26556; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:41:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:41:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA17941 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:41:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.64.12.23]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA29083 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:41:09 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 21968 invoked by uid 50); 10 Dec 1999 22:41:02 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "10 Dec 1999 17:24:37 -0500" Original-Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.66/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28097 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28097 Stainless Steel Rat writes: > Patrick wrote that qmail, not qmail-inject, is a mail delivery agent, > which it is not. qmail is exactly what I described it being. Yes and no; that was part of the point that I was trying to make. qmail is a large suite of programs. Some of them implement an SMTP MTA; other programs in that suite do other things. When it comes to things like message rewriting, saying that "qmail" does something is very inspecific and can be somewhat misleading. > If qmail or qmail-inject cannot handle anything but Internet mail > messages, you need another MTA to deal with local mail, and possibly a > third or more to deal with other network mail you might have, such as > UUCP or X.400. Yup, we're agreed there. qmail by design deals only with Internet mail. You can make various local mail conventions work, but qmail was not designed for them and will generally make them look very SMTP-like. Similarly for UUCP. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)