Mrinal Kalakrishnan writes:
> Hi,
>
> Jason Helfman typed:
> > Running both of these at home. Q, though. I am polling my mail from my
> > isp via fetchmail. Is it really even necessary to run sendmail as a
> > daemon?
>
> To receive mail, no. You can use the -m or --mda command of fetchmail
> to specify your MDA as procmail, thus bypassing sendmail. But to send
> mail... most probably you'll need sendmail. (I've heard of something
> called ssmtp, check that out.)
You only need a running sendmail daemon to *receive* mail. Mail User
Agents either do their own SMTP, or run the MTA (sendmail) directly.
