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Subject: Re: Postfix configuration
From: Bennett Todd (betrahul.net)
Date: Tue May 02 2000 - 11:31:35 CDT

2000-04-29-08:15:11 Simon J Mudd:
> I would guess that you "extract" your mail using something like
> fetchmail from a pop3 mailbox. That doesn't involve an MTA.

I second the recommendation of fetchmail. And I agree with the last
statement, but only because I recommend using the (non-default, and
frowned-upon by esr) "mda" option to tell fetchmail to send directly
into a local delivery agent (I'm currently using procmail).
fetchmail's default, which esr strongly encourages you to stick
with, is to port-25-smtp into a local MTA. esr writes, in the
fetchmail(1) man page for 5.3.0, of the mda option:

        Be aware that this disables some valuable
        resource-exhaustion checks and error handling provided by
        SMTP listeners; it's not a good idea unless running an SMTP
        listener is impossible.

I personally prefer the simplicity of letting fetchmail pipe into
the LDA without routing the message through an MTA to get it there,
and if fetchmail fails to check for an error return from the LDA,
well, that'd be an annoyance if I let my home dir fill up.

-Bennett

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