Why do you need sendmail to send the mail..You would only need to send
the mail out with someone to listen for the mails. I have fetchmail
pulling them down, not sendmail.
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 01:36:07AM +0530, Mrinal Kalakrishnan uttered:
| Hi,
|
| Jason Helfman typed:
| > Running both of these at home. Q, though. I am polling my mail from my
| > isp via fetchmail. Is it really even necessary to run sendmail as a
| > daemon?
|
| To receive mail, no. You can use the -m or --mda command of fetchmail
| to specify your MDA as procmail, thus bypassing sendmail. But to send
| mail... most probably you'll need sendmail. (I've heard of something
| called ssmtp, check that out.)
|
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| Not me, guy. I read the Bash man page each day like a Jehovah's Witness reads
| the Bible. No wait, the Bash man page IS the bible. Excuse me...
| (More on confusing aliases, taken from comp.os.linux.misc)
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