On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, John Spence wrote: > I'm using fetchmail and sendmail and they seem to work. However when i > threw Smail away and ran deselect to install Sendmail, the dependency > information said that I needed "deliver". I had already installed > procmail and thought that procmail was the logical equivalent of > deliver no?
You don't need deliver if procmail is installed... In hamm this was fixed a while back. You could --force it I guess, but I don't think deliver needs a whole lot of diskspace. > I'm still a bit new at configuring Linux machines for mail (which is > partly why I'm using Agent), so here is what I think is supposed to > happen: > > I call fetchmail which checks my POP account and downloads the mail. > Fetchmail then either (1.) places the mail in /var/spool/mail/username > or (2.) passes it to a program like "deliver" or "procmail" ? So > basically sendmail doesn't do anyting until I export mail ? I would think that fetchmail would leave the job to the local delivery agent or the MTA, since they're already there and know how to do that. I just went and read about fetchmail... I think in most configurations it uses the MTA on port 25, but you can configure it to use a local delivery agent if you want. > > I've read a lot of news and docs trying to understand "what happens > when" but keep reading things that say I only need an MTA like > sendmail and a MUA like Pine. There seems to be a step in the middle > missing. > You need an MTA, a delivery agent, and an MUA. I guess some MTA's might know how to do local delivery -- that might be the source of confusion. TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
