Re: question about hostname FOLLOWUP: EXIM
i see. looks like procmail is not the mda of debian. with my
~/.fetchmailrc i also have ~/.forward which have "|/usr/bin/procmail"
(without the quotes as exim doesn't like it).
so how can we tell what mda is being defaulted or used by a linux distro?
----- Original Message -----
From: <burningclown@westhost43.westhost.net>
To: Debian Users' List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: question about hostname FOLLOWUP: EXIM
>
> Hi,
>
> 'kay, important things first: what is that there furshlugginer "HTH"? I
> notice lots o' people usin' it. :)
>
> I went onto the #debian channel on openprojects.net IRC and asked around
> about the exim/fetchmail thing. Was told to add this to my .fetchmailrc
file:
>
> with mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
>
> ... and now it works. Or seems to.
>
> But I must know: WHY does it work? And is procmail REPLACING exim, or some
> other part of the quilt? How to sort out sendmail/exim/procmail/fetchmail
> and the slew of names ...
>
> I crave me some clarity. Gotta go read some manpages.
>
> G
>
> > Yeah, nice to know exim is lots fun for others. I have the same
set-up
> > as you, static DSL. I'll attach my exim.config/fetchmailrc files as I
had to
> > hack this sucker up to get what I wanted:
>
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