Re: how to start smail on hamm?
> > 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 do have the package installed (and configured). My confusion is over
how to get it going. To get to where I could download mail with
fetchmail, I had to edit inetd.conf and hosts.allow (uncommenting an smtp
service line and adding ALL: .alaska.edu line respectively) as per te
advice of a helpful character on irc. I am wonding if I need to do
something similliar to get smail started. Right now there is no smail or
sendmail process visible with ps ax.
> 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.
This is how I would like to set things up also, but the aforementioned
helpful person recomended specifying procmail as the mda in .fetchmailrc.
> Regards
>
> marco
>
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Britton Kerin
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