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Re: A simple MTA?



According to mikepolniak,
> On 11:56 Mon 24 Oct     , mikepolniak wrote:
> > On 17:41 Mon 24 Oct     , Teemu Ikonen wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I'm looking for a mail transfer agent for a typical workstation,
> > > laptop or simple server configuration, but so far I haven't found a
> > > suitable one either in Debian or elsewhere. The ones I've checked are
> > > either too simple (nullmailer, ssmtp) or too complex (exim and
> > > everything else).
> > > 
> > You can use fetchmail with -m to force the mail it retrieves directly to 
> > procmail rather than forwarding to port 25 (so no MTA needed).
> > 
> > fetchmail -a -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"

Or you can put it right in fetchmail's rc like I do:

  poll mypophost with protocol pop3 interval 600;
          user 'myusername' options fetchall;
          password 'mypasswd'
          mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"




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