On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 11:03 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 17:54, JoeHill wrote: > > But who does the POP3 call from the client machine talk to? What takes > > the mail from /home/use/mail to their inbox? Postfix? > > Gremlins.
Mail takes this path Fetchmail will get it from the ISP. If there is an MTA (such as Postfix) listening on port 25 it will hand the mail over to Postfix. If there is nothing on port25 but a ~/.procmailrc file exists it hands the mail over to procmail. Procmail will then put the mail anywhere you define. If neither Postfix or Procmail are present fetchmail puts the mail in /var/spool/mail/user_name You can point your mail client to this file to read your mail. For example in Kmail there is an option for an account type "Local Mailbox" Postfix will pass the mail to Procmail if it exists, or will put the mail in the mailbox defined in /etc/postfix/main.cf home_mailbox parameter derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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