Comments on: Adding a delivery filter – maildrop http://diymacserver.com Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:07:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Collin http://diymacserver.com/installing-the-mailserver/adding-a-delivery-filter-maildrop/comment-page-1/#comment-6525 Collin Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:31:43 +0000 http://diymacserver.com/installing-the-mailserver/adding-a-delivery-filter-maildrop/#comment-6525 Maildrop is an MDA (Mail Delivery Agent) not an MTA (Mail Transport Agent) and sieve seems to be a filtering language, which would be implemented by... you guessed it... an MDA. One would use an MDA like Maildrop, because it understands virtual users and virtual hosts, as implemented by the Courier MTA and its utilities (of which Maildrop is a member) Sieve does look nice, but it's not an entire solution, it's a language, supported / implemented by MTA's or MDA's. Maildrop is an MDA (Mail Delivery Agent) not an MTA (Mail Transport Agent) and sieve seems to be a filtering language, which would be implemented by… you guessed it… an MDA.

One would use an MDA like Maildrop, because it understands virtual users and virtual hosts, as implemented by the Courier MTA and its utilities (of which Maildrop is a member)

Sieve does look nice, but it’s not an entire solution, it’s a language, supported / implemented by MTA’s or MDA’s.

]]> By: Addihetja http://diymacserver.com/installing-the-mailserver/adding-a-delivery-filter-maildrop/comment-page-1/#comment-3792 Addihetja Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:26:49 +0000 http://diymacserver.com/installing-the-mailserver/adding-a-delivery-filter-maildrop/#comment-3792 Why not use sieve filtering? Why use an MTA to dot this? Why not use sieve filtering? Why use an MTA to dot this?

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