On Mon, 21 May 2001, Joss Winn wrote:
> I would like to disable the sendmail daemon yet still be able to
> fetch mail using fetchmail, calling sendmail to deliver the mail
> only when fetchmail needs it. Currently, if the sendmail daemon is
> disabled, I can send mail, but when trying to fetch i with
> fetchmail, it fails because sendmail is not running in the
> background. Is there anyway i can use sendmail without it running
> constantly on port 25? I do not run any external services and am
> the only user. Alternatively, can I make the pop3 function in mutt
> work with procmail?
just curious, why deliver the mail via sendmail? you can just call
procmail directly from fetchmail, and skip sendmail alltogether... unless
there's a reason I've missed here?
just put:
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
in your fetchmailrc, and turn off sendmail :)
HTH,
Dan
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux MVP
Brainbench.com
