Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-04-03 08:54, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Fri,03.Apr.09, 04:22:11, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 2009-04-03 02:06, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> [snip] > >>> AFAIK fetchmail defaults to delivering your mail by using a local SMTP. > >>> This is a Bad Thing (tm), because it can create a lot of problems, > >>> YMMV > >> How so? It (fetchmail->Postfix/SpamAssassin->maildrop->~/Maildir) has > >> been working perfectly on my system for 4 years. > > > > Let me quote Charles Cazabon (ok, he's the author of getmail, but sure > > knows a lot about mail handling): > > Smells of Appeal To Authority. > > A morally superior person like me would *never* do that!!!!
It sounds to me like something I just read recently, about the whole 'considered harmful' slag. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful > > > > ,---- > > | NOTE: DO NOT USE "sendmail" (or any other MTA queue-injection command) AS > > YOUR | DELIVERY INSTRUCTION. Unless you're a mail expert (and you're not), > > | re-injection of retrieved mail (with getmail or other agents) is virtually > > | guaranteed to cause one or more of lost mail, misdirected mail, bad late > > | bounces, leakage of delivery information, and other problems. > > `---- > > Maybe getmail has a design flaw, or CC thinks that everyone still > uses Sendmail. > > > This was just a few days ago on the official getmail mailing list, in > > reply to someone asking how to use the MTA for delivery. If you are > > interested in more details search the archives of the getmail list. > > What the heck is an MTA for??? Right: transporting mail, usually on > port 25. Postfix does a wonderfully boring job of receiving from > fetchmail and cron, linking to SpamAssassin, then sending to my MDA. -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
