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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