[Exim] Bypassing exim with fetchmail/procmail good idea?

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Author: Dr. Christian Seberino
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To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] Bypassing exim with fetchmail/procmail good idea?
I use exim to *SEND* email but it seems more simple
to not run exim daemon constantly and just have
fetchmail bypass port 25 and give email directly
to procmail.

Fetchmail man page says this is bad because
this:
"disables some valuable resource-exhaustion checks
and error handling provided by SMTP listeners"

Does anyone understand this or have any opinions
on this?

Even if exim daemon is not a securiy risk why
run it in the first place if not necessary?

Chris    


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