Re: fetchmail/procmail was: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)

1998-05-04 Thread wrl
'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 04:19:31AM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 11:40:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > We are probably wasting everyone's time now by not looking to see just what > > fetchmail/procmail interface actually i

Re: fetchmail/procmail was: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)

1998-05-04 Thread wrl
'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 11:39:44PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Sun, 3 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' > > > > I don't think so Jason... > > > > Fetchmail is also pretty robust about mail handling but i

Re: MDA's was: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)

1998-05-04 Thread wrl
'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' I don't see why either but it sure has not been done. [snip] > I don't see why it shouldn't be possible to make configuration just > as easy for a dial-up case. We need to figure out what the typical dial-up > cases look like and integrate them into the confi

Re: fetchmail/procmail was: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)

1998-05-03 Thread wrl
'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' I don't think so Jason... Fetchmail is also pretty robust about mail handling but it expect whatever it 'hands a message too' to do something with the message. I won't even pretend to know the nature of the problems but I suspect that it deals with the idea

Re: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)

1998-05-03 Thread wrl
'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' I think I'm confused too thought that is not such an unusual state latesly... Fetchmail IS POP (or IMAP and somthing else but definately NOT smtp) for __getting__ the mail. It IS also smtp for handing the mail to the machine that it is running on (though I g

Re: MDA's was: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)

1998-05-03 Thread wrl
'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Sendmail configuration is tough but it is also the best documented MTA bar none! The O'Reliey book alone on sendmail is 2 1/5" thick. Probably close to everything that has ever been done with mail has been done with sendmail (and possibly some things that c

Re: Conflicts between developers and policy

1998-05-02 Thread wrl
'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Manoj; The 'Social Contract' and the 'DFSG' are indeed goal statements. However, they are goal statements of a very imprecise nature. They are not 'working documents' they are rather more like 'lofty ideals'. Ideals that don't necessarily mean precisely t