On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 10:00:59AM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 9 Oct 2014 18:35:22 +1300 > Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 07:41:06PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > > Even fetchmail connects to the MTA on its own host by SMTP. > > > > How have you got yours configured? fetchmail connects using the pop3 > > protocol in my configuration. > > > > Yes, and it then passes on the mail to the system MTA using SMTP, by > default. It doesn't have to, it can also use sockets. > > To move the mail to another machine, particularly a non-*nix one, it's > easiest to stick with SMTP. If you're mixing directly-received email > with POP-collected email, again SMTP is the simplest interface, all > incoming email will be processed in the same way.
Have a look at the '-m' option. No MTA needed. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141009223211.GE32705@tal
