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Subject: Re: Postfix configuration
From: Simon J Mudd (sjmuddpobox.com)
Date: Tue May 02 2000 - 16:43:06 CDT

On Tue, 2 May 2000, Bennett Todd wrote:

> 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).

Personally I've not had any trouble with making fetchmail deliver to the
local postfix MTA (which in turn delivers via
mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail), so at least I follow esr's default
value.

My original comment about not using an MTA really referred to about
"extracting mail" from the ISP, which didn't seam to imply using the
smtp MTA - MTA link.

Simon 

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