Re: Fetchmail Problems
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:32:56AM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Michael Pobega:
> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 06:39:56PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>
> >> Is ssmtp a daemon? Maybe you need to restart it. Have you tried
> >> looking in /var/log/mail.log?
> >
> > There doesn't seem to be a daemon for it.
>
> I *think* fetchmail can use any sendmail-compatible binary
> (/usr/bin/sendmail) for local delivery, so if ssmtp provides such a
> binary (or a symlink with that name), it should be possible to make it
> work. But I have abandoned fetchmail already and cannot help (without
> googling).
>
> > What MTA would you recommend in place of it in this case?
>
> If you do not have very special requirements, any MTA will do. The rest
> is pure personal preference. My advice would be to stick with Exim4 in
> the beginning, since it is Debian's default MTA. It is quite well
> documented and many people will be able to help.
>
> Personally, I found Exim (version 3 at that time) a little bit hard to
> grasp, but that was a few years ago. At that time, I switched to
> Postfix, another popular choice, and have been using it ever since in a
> few different setups.
>
> Whatever you choose: if the setup that you can do with debconf doesn't
> exactly do what you need, prepare to read and re-read a lot of
> documentation until you understand its basic concepts and terminology.
> Any "real" MTA is a complicated beast that can do a lot more than you
> need in any single situation.
>
> J.
Well the last thing I need is to get procmail working, if I can't I
may end up just abandoning Debian altogether (I'm not threatening it,
but it's just really annoying, and I NEED procmail, it's not even a
"nice thing to use", I NEED it).
I really don't get why Getmail won't feed the mail into Procmail...It
just hangs, I'm getting no errors or anything.
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