On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 07:39:17PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > How do you read your own e-mail? Do you pop it from somewhere to the > local box, or do you use fetchmail or maildrop or one of their relatives > to dump it into the local mail spool? > > Fetchmail and etc need a local MTA running because that's how they > put mail into the spool. There's one reason.
fetchmail can be told to deliver via procmail. So no MTA is required in that case--just an MDA. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, WCNet, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/