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Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)



Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:

> > What I don't think is optimal is to redirect *all* your mails
> > through an MTA like exim/postfix/... just to do some filtering.
> > Getmail can do this on its own just fine (well not the actual
> > filtering, but then neither does exim/postfix), no need for the
> > added complexity.
> 
> Why not?  The MTA is already installed, so why not use it for it's
> designed purpose, including relaying outbound mail?
                                       ^^^^^^^^
I thought we were talking about inbound mail. I'm sending my mail just
fine using postfix.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)



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