On Tuesday 12 April 2005 1:10, Byron Clark wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:19:27PM -0600, Jared Bernard wrote: > > If I understand correctly, fetchmail retrieves the email and places it > > locally. What I don't understand is, where does it put it so I can point > > Pine to it? I haven't been able to find an answer to that by googling. > > Pine then should be able to read that pulled email. > > This is the part that isn't quite right. fetchmail retrieves the email > and sends it to the local MTA/MDA to deliver (place) the message. > > For more information on how this works, here is the relevant section of > the manpage (fetchmail(1)): > > 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 automatically. > > If no port 25 listener is available, you must configure Debian > fetchmail explicitly to use an MDA. > > If you have procmail installed you can have fetchmail use procmail to > deliver mail with the following command: > > fetchmail -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
Ok, I see now! So that being said, what would be the best (meaning the easiest for a dummy like me to configure, works well with fetchmail/pine) MTA (Postfix/Sendmail/Qmail/etc) to use? JB .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
