Re: fetchmail
According to Michael, on Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:08:01 -0800,
>steinm wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 01:33:59PM -0800, Michael wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I reconfig pppconfig and it worked, still don't understand it but I
>>> worked. downloaded and compiled ncurses 5.4 so I could compile nano
>>> (a pico clone) because I have no idea how to use vi.
>>>
>>> I wrote a ~/.fetchmailrc but there it quits with an error. the log
>>> is this:
>>>
>>> fetchmail: 9 messages for michael.six@sbcglobal.net at
>>> pop-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com (147605 octets).
>>> fetchmail: reading message
>>> michael.six@sbcglobal.net@pop-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com:1 of 9
>>> (6183 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
>>>
>>
>> Your are missing a local mail daemon like exim or postfix.
>>
>I thought fetchmail was a mail daemon, or could be
>--Mike
>
You can ask it to pipe directly your messages to procmail, see mta option of the config
file.
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