Victor Torrico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > mda "exim -bm %s"
Thanks for the help, but I had discovered (see one of my previous messages) that I could get it to work with this option. However, I wanted to know why it was necessary. So far everyone who has a working setup is using it, but according to the fetchmail FAQ, this approach is a bad idea: >From the fetchmail FAQ: using an MDA for delivery is discouraged. If you throw those options away, fetchmail will now forward your mail into your system's normal Internet-mail delivery path. Actually, using an MDA is now almost always the wrong thing; the MDA facility has been retained only for people who can't or won't run a sendmail-like SMTP listener on port 25. The default, SMTP forwarding to port 25, is better for at least two major reasons. One: it feeds retrieved POP and IMAP mail into your system's normal delivery path along with local mail and normal Internet mail, so all your normal filtering/aliasing/forwarding setup for local mail works. Two: because the port 25 listener returns a positive acknowledge, fetchmail can be sure you're not going to lose mail to a disk-full or some other resource-exhaustion problem. Using the SMTP delivery (no mda option) works fine with sendmail, so just wanted to make it work with exim. Thanks -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
