On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:02:35AM -0000, mutt-users-digest wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 22:27:10 +0900
> From: Joss Winn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: fetching mail in mutt and sendmail
>
> Hello,
> 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?
> Thank you very much
> Joss
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> Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 09:33:22 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Dan Boger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: fetching mail in mutt and sendmail
>
> 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
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> Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 18:53:46 +0530
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: fetching mail in mutt and sendmail
>
> Joss Winn [mutt-users] <21/05/01 22:27 +0900>:
> > 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
> RTFM the mda flag in fetchmail - you can use procmail, maildrop, deliver (or
> whatever) for local delivery.
> > 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
> You can have it listen only on 127.0.0.1 (use the daemon port options in
> sendmail.mc)
> > the only user. Alternatively, can I make the pop3 function in mutt
> > work with procmail?
>
> defaults
> forcecr
> poll pop.server with proto pop3
> user foo with pass bar mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
> fetchall
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Dan and Suresh,
thanks very much. I was under the impression that I had to have
sendmail communicating with fetchmail to get the mail to my inbox. I
thought it was a bit of an overkill for such a simple situation.
All solved.
cheers
joss
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