Re: Problem with exim and fetchmail.

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

Victor Torrico <vtorrico@cfw.com> writes:

> mda "exim -bm %s"

Thanks for the help, but I had discovered (see one of my previous
messages) that I could get it to work with this option.  However, I
wanted to know why it was necessary.  So far everyone who has a
working setup is using it, but according to the fetchmail FAQ, this
approach is a bad idea:

>From the fetchmail FAQ:

  using an MDA for delivery is discouraged. If you throw those options
  away, fetchmail will now forward your mail into your system's normal
  Internet-mail delivery path.

  Actually, using an MDA is now almost always the wrong thing; the MDA
  facility has been retained only for people who can't or won't run a
  sendmail-like SMTP listener on port 25. The default, SMTP forwarding
  to port 25, is better for at least two major reasons. One: it feeds
  retrieved POP and IMAP mail into your system's normal delivery path
  along with local mail and normal Internet mail, so all your normal
  filtering/aliasing/forwarding setup for local mail works. Two:
  because the port 25 listener returns a positive acknowledge,
  fetchmail can be sure you're not going to lose mail to a disk-full
  or some other resource-exhaustion problem.

Using the SMTP delivery (no mda option) works fine with sendmail, so
just wanted to make it work with exim.

Thanks
-- 
Rob


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