On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:02:35AM -, mutt-users-digest wrote:
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Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 22:27:10 +0900
From: Joss Winn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: fetching mail in mutt and sendmail
Hello,
I would like to disable the sendmail daemon yet still be able to
fetch mail using fetchmail, calling sendmail to deliver the mail
only when fetchmail needs it. Currently, if the sendmail daemon is
disabled, I can send mail, but when trying to fetch i with
fetchmail, it fails because sendmail is not running in the
background. Is there anyway i can use sendmail without it running
constantly on port 25? I do not run any external services and am
the only user. Alternatively, can I make the pop3 function in mutt
work with procmail?
Thank you very much
Joss
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Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 09:33:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dan Boger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: fetching mail in mutt and sendmail
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Joss Winn wrote:
I would like to disable the sendmail daemon yet still be able to
fetch mail using fetchmail, calling sendmail to deliver the mail
only when fetchmail needs it. Currently, if the sendmail daemon is
disabled, I can send mail, but when trying to fetch i with
fetchmail, it fails because sendmail is not running in the
background. Is there anyway i can use sendmail without it running
constantly on port 25? I do not run any external services and am
the only user. Alternatively, can I make the pop3 function in mutt
work with procmail?
just curious, why deliver the mail via sendmail? you can just call
procmail directly from fetchmail, and skip sendmail alltogether... unless
there's a reason I've missed here?
just put:
mda /usr/bin/procmail -d %T
in your fetchmailrc, and turn off sendmail :)
HTH,
Dan
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Brainbench.com
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Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 18:53:46 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: fetching mail in mutt and sendmail
Joss Winn [mutt-users] 21/05/01 22:27 +0900:
I would like to disable the sendmail daemon yet still be able to
fetch mail using fetchmail, calling sendmail to deliver the mail
only when fetchmail needs it. Currently, if the sendmail daemon is
disabled, I can send mail, but when trying to fetch i with
RTFM the mda flag in fetchmail - you can use procmail, maildrop, deliver (or
whatever) for local delivery.
fetchmail, it fails because sendmail is not running in the
background. Is there anyway i can use sendmail without it running
constantly on port 25? I do not run any external services and am
You can have it listen only on 127.0.0.1 (use the daemon port options in
sendmail.mc)
the only user. Alternatively, can I make the pop3 function in mutt
work with procmail?
defaults
forcecr
poll pop.server with proto pop3
user foo with pass bar mda /usr/bin/procmail -d %T
fetchall
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mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of India, tinlcI
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
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Dan and Suresh,
thanks very much. I was under the impression that I had to have
sendmail communicating with fetchmail to get the mail to my inbox. I
thought it was a bit of an overkill for such a simple situation.
All solved.
cheers
joss
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