Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:12:28AM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> ...Of course, I need something to act as MTA; but, what I am
> unclear about is that which exim contributes as LDA that cannot --
> readily -- be accomplished via procmail. What are reasons to continue
> to use exim -- or equivalent -- between fetchmail and procmail?
It's a necessity in a multi-drop setup, i.e. getting mail for different
people in the same mailbox at your IPS, you need a MTA to deliver to
all the different users.
I for instance have one mailbox at my IPS with 5 aliases. Being Dutch
and all, we use those aliases so all members of the family seem to
have there own email address, and I configured fetchmail to get the
mail and deliver depending on header info. It used to work flawless,
but then the Envelop/Deliverd-TO header got mangled at my IPS and hence
meaningless:(, and now I've to rely on (incomplete) Received headers.
A second reason I prefer the setup I have, is that I can switch to
maildrop, gnus elisp filters or cyrus's sieve (imap site filtering)
without having to change a thing in my fetchmail setup. If I were to
use procmail directly, I would have to both change my general mail
setup *and* my fetchmail/procmail setup.
--
groetjes, carel
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