Jeffrey Goldberg rearranged electrons thusly:
> 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
[...]
> LMTP really looks like the right thing for this users task.
yeah ... but still ...
from man fetchmail
> -m <command>, --mda <command>
> (Keyword: mda) You can force mail to be passed to an MDA directly (rather
> than forwarded to port 25) with the -mda or -m option.
>
> If fetchmail is running as root, it sets its userid to that of the target user
> while delivering mail through an MDA. Some possible MDAs are
> "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -f %F %T", "/usr/bin/deliver" and
> "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" (but the latter is usually redundant as it's what
> SMTP listeners usually forward to).
--suresh
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
