On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 09:53:51AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 11:14:16PM -0800, Britton wrote: > > I have fetchmail working with procmail as my mda, and I can see downloaded > > messages with 'mail', but when I send a message to myself (or I expect > > anyone else), I get errors. I expect I need smail running for this to > > work? What is the preferred way to make smail run on hamm? Should > > fetchmail be using smail in it's mda line instead of procmail? > > A friend of mine is suffering from similar problems, and suspects it might > be a problem with smail. You might want to try if using another MDA (e.g. > exim) works.
I'm not sure it's that, so much as not having a MTA present (I get the impression that Britton doesn't have smail installed at all). I don't think that fetchmail would take locally deliverable (or any deliverable) messages, given that pop3 is a one way protocol. I would think that one would need a SMTP agent - smail, exim, qmail, sendmail - to deliver any outgoing messages; a properly configured SMTP agent would also be able to call procmail for the delivery of internal messages. I have a tiny little note on one of my webpages on how to modify the default smail configuration to use procmail as a MDA. The URL is http://squawk.klue.on.ca/linux/procmail.htm Regards marco -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is like a bad margarita with good tequila, http://squawk.klue.on.ca I thought, as I poured whiskey onto my granola Running Debian Linux 2.0 and faced a new day. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]