Re: Why need an MTA in the defualt install ??
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 07:39:17PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> How do you read your own e-mail? Do you pop it from somewhere to the
> local box, or do you use fetchmail or maildrop or one of their relatives
> to dump it into the local mail spool?
>
> Fetchmail and etc need a local MTA running because that's how they
> put mail into the spool. There's one reason.
fetchmail can be told to deliver via procmail. So no MTA is required
in that case--just an MDA.
Jeremy
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