Re: how to start smail on hamm?
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 09:53:51AM +0200, jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 11:14:16PM -0800, Britton wrote:
> > I have fetchmail working with procmail as my mda, and I can see downloaded
> > messages with 'mail', but when I send a message to myself (or I expect
> > anyone else), I get errors. I expect I need smail running for this to
> > work? What is the preferred way to make smail run on hamm? Should
> > fetchmail be using smail in it's mda line instead of procmail?
>
> A friend of mine is suffering from similar problems, and suspects it might
> be a problem with smail. You might want to try if using another MDA (e.g.
> exim) works.
I'm not sure it's that, so much as not having a MTA present (I get the
impression that Britton doesn't have smail installed at all).
I don't think that fetchmail would take locally deliverable (or any
deliverable) messages, given that pop3 is a one way protocol. I would
think that one would need a SMTP agent - smail, exim, qmail, sendmail - to
deliver any outgoing messages; a properly configured SMTP agent would also
be able to call procmail for the delivery of internal messages.
I have a tiny little note on one of my webpages on how to modify the
default smail configuration to use procmail as a MDA. The URL is
http://squawk.klue.on.ca/linux/procmail.htm
Regards
marco
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