Quoting Adeodato Simó ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > fetchmail(1) includes: > > -m <command> | --mda <command> > (Keyword: mda) You can force mail to be passed to an MDA > directly (rather than forwarded to port 25) with the --mda or -m > option. To avoid losing mail, use this option only with MDAs > like procmail or sendmail that return a nonzero status on disk- > full and other resource-exhaustion errors; the nonzero status > tells fetchmail that delivery failed and prevents the message > from being deleted off the server.
Thank you for pointing that out! I was somewhat mislead by the getmail author's rhetoric (aimed explicitly at fetchmail) on http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-3.0/ , which claims as an advantage that it "Does not cause mail loops by doing SMTP injection, and therefore does not require that you run an MTA (like qmail or sendmail) on your host." -- Cheers, The cynics among us might say: "We laugh, Rick Moen monkeyboys -- Linux IS the mainstream UNIX now! [EMAIL PROTECTED] MuaHaHaHa!" but that would be rude. -- Jim Dennis