[plug] Am trying to set up a newsgroup as a "knowledge base" for programming lessons...

[John Summerfield]

On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, David Campbell wrote:

> 
> The sendmail daemon sits on a spool directory and tries to empty it (by 
> unloading it onto other servers), depending on the size of the mail load it is 
> normally quite successful. Also the sendmail daemon also listens to port 25 
> for SMTP jobs which get dumped into the spool directory, then in turn back 
> out to the world or the users' incoming mail folder. Sendmail is one of those 


and when the mail gets to its final destination, sendmail DELIVERS it
(assisted by procmail and maybe other friends) into users' mailboxes.