[Gllug] More fetchmail/sendmail questions

Andrew Halliwell ah at gnd.com
Mon Mar 3 15:18:38 UTC 2003


And verily, didst Mike Brodbelt announce to the hordes:
> This is what I use:-
> 
> set daemon 300  # Poll at 5-minute intervals
> set postmaster "postmaster"
> set syslog
> set bouncemail
> 
> poll pop3.demon.co.uk protocol POP3 aka mailstore nodns:
>     localdomains coruscant.demon.co.uk
>     user coruscant is * password secretpassword fetchall
> 
> This fetches all mail queued for *@coruscant.demon.co.uk and delivers to
> appropriate local mailboxes. You can map demon mailbox names to local
> usernames with /etc/mail/aliases if necessary.

But then... if you're using demon, you don't need to bother with fetchmail.
Sendmail's quite capable of receiving mail send direct from demon's
mailserver via SMTP (which is actually demon's default. pop3 is an add on)

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