Email::LocalDelivery
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This article refers to the Perl module Email::LocalDelivery.
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Email::LocalDelivery delivers an email to a list of mailboxes. It was originally intended to replace Mail::LocalDelivery.
Ricardo Signes explains the relationship between Email::LocalDelivery and Email::Send:
- They're different. Email::Send takes a message and fires it out into the internet like a circus performer from a cannon. Email::LocalDelivery drops a message into a file on your local disk like ice cream from a sad child's cone.
- In other words: Email::Send is like sendmail(1) and Email::LocalDelivery is like deliver(8). Any program that wants to write a message to an mbox or Maildir wants E::LD. Any program that wants to send mail to another host wants Email::Send.
- I am interested in writing a LocalDelivery mailer for Email::Send, however, that will send mail to local storage. Useful!
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Ideas
...alternately, the various LocalDelivery plugins may be replaced by plugins for Email::Sender, to which Email::LocalDelivery would then become an autodetecting front-end.
Email::LocalDelivery::IMAP seems possible. As to whether this is a good thing or not...
