Re: fetchmail VS. ?

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 14 Oct, Andrew Clark wrote about "Re: fetchmail VS. ?"
> 
> 
> Fetchmail does devliver to local var/spool/mail dirs.  On my machine I 
> have in the ~/.fetchmailrc file:
> 
> poll mail.dynamite.com.au proto pop3 user ajfclark there is andrew 
> here
> 
> Then when I run fetchmail, it asks for my password, grabs each mail 
> and delivers it to andrwe@localhost, which sticks it in the mail 
> spool.
> 

Yes but this is using smtp and your mta to put it there.  The orginal
poster was looking for a method of skipping the smtp connection via the
mta.

Brian Servis
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