Actually if you have fetchmail installed then you can write your own
.fetchmailrc in your home directory.
On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 13:20:22 -0700
> From: Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: installing sendmail
>
> At 01:58 PM 8/5/00 -0700, davidturetsky wrote:
> >I too have been trying to grope my way through sendmail. Yes it was
> >installed with my system at /usr/sbin, but there is no file .fetchmailrc or
> >sendmail.cf
> >
> >I wonder if I shouldn't download a fresh copy and (re)install it
>
> Bet you're wrong. You run Debian, yes? The default mailer for Debian is
> exim, not sendmail. It sets up a symlink "sendmail" that points to exim (any
> MTA does that, because way too many applications assume that name for the
> system's MTA to let them do anything else).
>
> Since fetchmail is a separate application, neither exim nor genuine sendmail
> would create any .fetchmailrc files. Try installing fetchmail.*.deb and
> fetchmailconf.*.deb for this. (I assume you know how to use apt-get by now.)
>
> Instead of sendmail.cf, you want to look for /etc/exim.conf (or, easier, run
> /usr/sbin/eximconfig).
>
> >David
> >
> [old stuff deleted]
>
>
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