i see. looks like procmail is not the mda of debian. with my ~/.fetchmailrc i also have ~/.forward which have "|/usr/bin/procmail" (without the quotes as exim doesn't like it).
so how can we tell what mda is being defaulted or used by a linux distro? ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Users' List <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 9:04 AM Subject: Re: question about hostname FOLLOWUP: EXIM > > Hi, > > 'kay, important things first: what is that there furshlugginer "HTH"? I > notice lots o' people usin' it. :) > > I went onto the #debian channel on openprojects.net IRC and asked around > about the exim/fetchmail thing. Was told to add this to my .fetchmailrc file: > > with mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" > > ... and now it works. Or seems to. > > But I must know: WHY does it work? And is procmail REPLACING exim, or some > other part of the quilt? How to sort out sendmail/exim/procmail/fetchmail > and the slew of names ... > > I crave me some clarity. Gotta go read some manpages. > > G > > > Yeah, nice to know exim is lots fun for others. I have the same set-up > > as you, static DSL. I'll attach my exim.config/fetchmailrc files as I had to > > hack this sucker up to get what I wanted: > > +----------------+ > http://www.burningclown.com > "Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All" > +----------------+ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
