Yes, that is exactly what I did
I've been doing this by hand since fetchmailconf assumes a graphical
interface and I'm running from the command line
David
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To: Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: installing sendmail
> 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).
> >
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