On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 09:43:49PM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 20:52:49 +0100, Jens Ritter wrote: > > [...] > >fetchmail delivers to your MTA (Mail Transport Agent --- read smail, > >sendmail, exim, whicheveryouuseplacedhere). The MTA is responsible for > >placing the mail in the right place. > > > >> What do I need in my ~/.fetchmailrc file to make it put the mail > >> in the right place? > > > >You have to install an MTA. > > Paul obviously doesn't have one installed. > > That leads to the question: Is the fetchmail package broken in that it > (erroneously) doesn't depend on an MTA? I would verify this myself if I > wasn't under NT right now writing a CD. :-)
No, you can use it with procmail. I have mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d $USER" in my .fetchmailrc If you're really keen, I guess you could even use cat /dev/stdin >>/var/spool/mail/$USER But there's probably a good reason not to. -- Matt Folwell, P2 Whewell's Court, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
