Re: Mail without MUA?

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Erwan David wrote:
> Le 07/01/2014 19:10, Brian a écrit :
> > On Tue 07 Jan 2014 at 18:33:06 +0100, Hans wrote:
> >
> > > I am wondering, why debian has already downloaded, although I got no MUA
> > > started. When I start kmail, all mails are already downloaded.
> > >
> > > Do you have any clue, where I can look, and which MTA might be resp0onsible
> > > for it? I suspected postfix, but it looks like there is another MTA running.
> > > Weird too, that this one must know my passwords for mail.
> > Exim's logs are in /var/log/exim4; Postfix may use /var/log/mail*. Have
> > a root around there. Also,
> >
> >    ps ax | grep <whatever>
> >
> > for a running daemon.
> However a MUA won't download emails from a MTA, but from a POP or IMAP
> server.
>
> What makes you think they were "downloaded".
>
> Also note that kmail is linked to akonadi which may act silently before
> you start kmail.
What Erwan said.  Sounds more like SMTP mail being processed by your 
MTA, with local delivery.

Miles Fidelman