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From: Alexander Gretencord <arutha@×××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Postfix provide virtual MDA?
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:59:40
Message-Id: 200208281659.36554.arutha@gmx.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Postfix provide virtual MDA? by "Philipp Kügle"
1 On Tuesday 27 August 2002 23:38, Philipp Kügle wrote:
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3 > I tried to install amavis-0.2.1-r3.ebuild. The ebuild depends on a
4 > virtual/mda. There are new ebuilds for procmail and maildrop in the
5 > Bug-System. But nothing for postfix.
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7 What does that mean ? No "new" builds for postfix ? postfix is an MTA not an
8 MDA, thats what procmail and maildrop are.
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10 > Because I use postfix I like to know if I should insert a line
11 > PROVIDE="virtual/mda" in the postfix-ebuild an (re)emerge?
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13 No, postfix is no mda.
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16 I dunno anything about amavis and what it needs tho. I always thought amavis
17 would not need an MDA but just hooks into the MTA well ... :)
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20 Alex
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22 --
23 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
24 deserve neither liberty nor safety."
25 Benjamin Franklin

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Postfix provide virtual MDA? Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o>