On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 12:10:10AM -0600, David Talkington wrote:
> Rob Yale wrote:
>
> >But if I'm using my ISPs pop and smtp servers, I don't need it on a
> >workstation, right?
>
> Maybe. If you're using a do-everything package like Netscape for
> mail, you're right. If you're using Pine, for instance, and you're
> using fetchmail to, well, fetch mail, you'll need sendmail running,
> because that's the mechanism by which fetchmail delivers to your
> mailbox.
[...]
sendmail is the default, yes, but it's not required. fetchmail can be
set up to use procmail for delivery and probably also to deliver
directly. On one of my machines, I got rid of sendmail as the whole
fetchmail -> sendmail -> procmail process was chewing up too many
resources, so I simply omitted the sendmail step and used procmail
directly. The fetchmail man page should have some hints to that regard.
HTH,
Thomas
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