On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:19:02PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> [2003.07.16.1756 +0200]: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:40:50PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > > fetchmail requires you to have an MDA configured, which may well be > > > beyond the average user. > > > > Wait, since when? I ran fetchmail *long* before I ran procmail... > > fetchmail can either forward mail to an MTA (which is also an MDA in > certain configurations), or it can pass it off to an MDA (e.g. > procmail). If you used it before procmail, then you passed mails off > to exim or postfix or the like, which can act as MDAs if you don't > tell it to use procmail or another MDA instead. I remember having fetchmail deliver my mail to /dev/null after having misconfigured my MTA. I installed one of those "Sending Only" MTAs to use with mutt, and didn't realize that meant that fetchmail would pass it the mail and it would happily vaporize it. I think there's a patch out there to get SMTP support into mutt. I'm going to compile that in one of these days, and free myself of all this MTA madness :) Bijan
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