> > 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 do have the package installed (and configured). My confusion is over how to get it going. To get to where I could download mail with fetchmail, I had to edit inetd.conf and hosts.allow (uncommenting an smtp service line and adding ALL: .alaska.edu line respectively) as per te advice of a helpful character on irc. I am wonding if I need to do something similliar to get smail started. Right now there is no smail or sendmail process visible with ps ax. > 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. This is how I would like to set things up also, but the aforementioned helpful person recomended specifying procmail as the mda in .fetchmailrc. > 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. Britton Kerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]