On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 09:59:53AM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > Hi Osamu, > Thanks for the response. I really don't get it when it comes to mail. > MTA/MDA/MUA are kind of confusing, if you know where I can find a 2 page > explanation of email I'd really like to read it. > I use /usr/bin/mail, mutt, fetchmail and exim4. > > The man page for /usr/bin/mail claims it's a "mail processing system". > Mutt is an MUA. > Fetchmail's man page claims, 'mail-retrieval and forwarding utility'. > Exim4's manpage claims it's an MTA, but fetchmail's manpage refers to > exim as an MDA. > > How does /usr/bin/mail know to put outbound mail in /var/spool/exim4/input?
/usr/bin/main calls /usr/sbin/sendmail . This happens to be exim . > I killed the exim daemon and mail still puts mail in .../exim4/input > even though 'exim4/input' doesn't appear in any file in /etc/ or > root's environment. > > > > When I tried this and the mail stopped getting delivered until I > > > restored /etc/default/exim4. > > > > Are you talking about delivering to external hosts? > > No, rather fetchmail failed since there was no connection on port 25. According to fetchmailrc(5) , try adding the following to your .fetchmailrc: mda "/usr/sbin/sendmail -i -f %F -- %T" Shouldn't this be the default? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
