Malcolm Boekhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can compile fetchmail and it appears to work with Cygwin and NT, however it
> wants to connect to an SMTP server (it doesn't simply write into the
> ~/mail/mbox file. Hence I need an SMTP listener - is this procmail? - to
> receive from fetchmail and I suppose this (procmail) writes into ~/mail/mbox.
> Correct?
No. fetchmail can be configured to deliver via an MDA like procmail instead of
SMTP re-injection; it's just not the default config.
However, as the author of getmail, I would urge you to consider trying getmail.
It would suit your purposes, and be simpler to configure and maintain.
Charles
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