Maildir - Software That Supports Maildir By Implication

Software That Supports Maildir By Implication

The list of software that can be used with Maildir is in fact much larger if you consider how this software can be plugged together, and the role of network access protocols.

For example:

  • The Sendmail MTA does not support any mail delivery format (although many assume that it does). Sendmail uses a separate delivery process called mail.local. Procmail (and other programs that support Maildir) can be used in place of mail.local, so Sendmail can rightly be said to support Maildir as much as it supports any other format.
  • Many mail readers do not support Maildir but do support remote access formats such as IMAP. Since there are several IMAP mail stores that support Maildir, any mail reader that supports IMAP such as Microsoft Outlook, Pine, or Mozilla Thunderbird can be used to access Maildir folders.
  • Fetchmail does not support Maildir (or any local delivery format) but since it talks to an SMTP server or local delivery agent, any of those listed above can be used to deliver mail from Fetchmail to Maildirs.

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