On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Jeffrey Goldberg rearranged electrons thusly:
>
> > You need to run an MTA as well as fetchmail. Fetchmail fetches the mail
> > by POP or IMAP and then reinjects by SMTP on your localhost. So you do
> > need some MTA for receiving mail.
> an MTA is not required, strictly speaking. You can use an mda (like
> procmail) without hassles
Are you sure? Fetchmail, as far as I know, will either pass on the mail
(a) via SMTP, so must talk to something that receives SMTP
(b) via LMTP, ditto.
(c) BSMTP
procmail merely takes a message body, and does not take (B)SMTP as far as
I know.
LMTP really looks like the right thing for this users task.
-j
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