On February 4, 2002, skippi wrote:
S> Is this a deamon which is suppose to be running in the
S> background?
Sendmail is not a daemon, but a program that can be invoked everytime
you send the mail. It will take care of queueing and relaying the
mail appropriately. What is appropriate depends on your system,
i.e., are on stand-alone machine you will typically relay all your
mail to an SMTP-server, while you on a machine with a mail server will
leave the message to the mail server. The beauty of sendmail is that
all this is hidden behind the scenes on a well-configured system.
I know Mario mentioned sendmail, but if you take a close look at the
following snip from the fetchmail man page:
As each message is retrieved fetchmail normally delivers it via
SMTP to port 25 on the machine it is running on (localhost),
just as though it were being passed in over a normal TCP/IP
link. The mail will then be delivered locally via your
system's MDA (Mail Delivery Agent, usually sendmail(8) but your
system may use a different one such as smail, mmdf, exim, or
qmail). All the delivery-control mechanisms (such as .forward
files) normally available through your system MDA and local
delivery agents will therefore work.
If no port 25 listener is available, but your fetchmail
compilation detected or was told about a reliable local MDA, it
will use that MDA for local delivery instead. At build time,
fetchmail normally looks for executable procmail(1) and
sendmail(1) binaries.
you'll notice that the default behavior depends on whether you a
running SMTP server or not. You initial message could therefore be
caused by an ill-configured SMTP server. I would therefore also check
whether you machine is listening on port 25.
Best
Peter
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