On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'd leave the last job, Mail Delivery, to a specialist MDA tool, such >> as a proper mail server like postfix. Run it so it's listening only to >> localhost, and tell getmail to submit the messages it has collected >> over SMTP to your local postfix. > Technically it's a Local Delivery Agent ( LDA ) tool, not MDA (: I just use > procmail... it's so simple.
I love TLAs :-) The actual writing to disk is done by the LDA tool, which is usually not available separately from the bigger MDA ... Actually procmail is a nice suggestion: for a small fix to the original problem, getmail could just pipe messages into procmail ... > You could always install your own mail server, and get it delivered directly > ( this might've been what Jim meant in his last comment ). Not quite; I simply meant running postfix locally as a way to get an MDA/LDA ... but in that light, procmail is a better solution for Stephen's situation I think. Running a full mail server would effectively replace the original POP mailboxes he referred to, and I bet that means he has email addresses in other people's domains, and there's probably no way to do proper forwarding from them (even without breaking SPF!) -jim
