David Benfell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Perhaps someone can help me to see the light here. I'm given to
> understand that people here complain about fetchmail's handing off of
> mail to the MTA as being flawed.
It is. It causes mail loops, bogus bounces, bogus double-bounces, and
generally creates headaches for any postmaster which cares about the stuff
that ends up in their inbox. Note that I'm biased; I'm the author of
getmail.
> I had trouble with it when I was still using sendmail, blamed it on sendmail
> (another "Lost in Space" episode), and bypassed the problem by having
> fetchmail hand off directly to procmail.
This is a good solution to many of the problems with fetchmail.
> These days, having had way too many sendmail adventures, I've switched
> to qmail. Calling the MDA (now maildrop) directly from fetchmail is
> an inherited arrangement from a resolution to earlier troubles. And,
> with this arrangement, I've had no trouble with fetchmail.
>
> I would consider switching to getmail, but I didn't see a way to run
> this via ssh. Is this possible?
As in, run getmail in a shell which happens to be communicating over an SSH
session? I don't see the problem. This isn't particularly germane to qmail,
so contact me in private email for further info.
Charles
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