'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' I think I'm confused too thought that is not such an unusual state latesly... Fetchmail IS POP (or IMAP and somthing else but definately NOT smtp) for __getting__ the mail. It IS also smtp for handing the mail to the machine that it is running on (though I guess that with the --mda procmail switch it probably uses pipes instead of port 25).
Again, though I will willingly admit to not knowing lots of stuff but what ISPs _receive_ mail from a user without using smtp to do it (other than the completely proprietary systems such as AOL, Juno, etc.)? On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 11:59:39PM +0100, Mark Baker wrote: > On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 10:52:48PM +0000, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > > > > But this is aimed at dialup users! You don't want a send-only MTA, as > > > dialup > > > users presumably want to store their mail locally. > > > > Their mail isn't gonna get delivered by smtp > > No? I know several dialup ISPs that do provide SMTP, including one with > 170,000 customers. > > > unless maybe fetchmail delivers it by smtp. > > Exactly: surely everyone who uses an inferior ISP is going to run fetchmail > instead? So everyone wants to run an MTA locally. The alternative would be > to force people to use an MUA with POP built-in, which is far from ideal, > because that doesn't include some very nice MUAs, and requires you to go > online at the time you read your mail rather than setting up a cron job, > -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: "The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft!" See! They do get some things right! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]