At 07:37 PM 08/05/2001 -0500, Matt Greer wrote:
>On Sunday 05 August 2001 19:32, Tuan Duc Tran wrote:
>> Can any tell me the difference between Sendmail and Fetchmail?
>
>Sendmail is for sending mail, typically to send your outgoing mail over to
>your isp so they can then send it to the recipient from there.
>
Actually sendmail (especially on static-IP mail servers) is bidirectional,
in that it is used not only to "send" but also to "receive" e-mail. This
is different than the protocol used to "check" e-mail (be it pop3, imap, etc).
>mail programs like pine, elm and mutt don't actually connect to your isp's
>mail server to get mail, they just look in the local mail folder. So you
need
>to use fetchmail in order to use these types of mail programs.
Pine, at least, can be configured to check for e-mail via pop3 (not sure
about imap). So yes, it can connect to an isp's mail server.
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Michael Viron
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Senior Systems & Administration Consultant
Web Spinners, University of West Florida
