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Re: Mail processing tool



On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 05:41:11PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Jonas J Linde (jonas@init.se):
> 
> > Never had any trouble with fetchmail except if setup badly; eg. with
> > different programs accessing the same mail box but using different
> > locking schemes.
> 
> Fetchmail's a useful tool, but it does require running a local MTA as an
> inherent part of its design.  (It does that instead of, itself, having
> code to support mail stores.)  At least one alternative MDA, getmail,
> was written specifically to avoid this requirement.  Please see: "MDAs"
> on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Mail.
> 
> > Nobody has suggested a mailserver as far as I can see. I suggested the
> > fetchmail/procmail combination exactly because it is small, reliable
> > and customizable.
> 
> And yet, ironically, using fetchmail necessitates running an MTA.  Thus
> my point.

fetchmail can pass mail directly to procmail using the -m switch (see
the man page) so a mail server isn't required.

At least the version in unstable can, havn't checked stable.

Yours
Tristan

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