On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Linda Hanigan wrote:
> Hi all,
> If I use fetchmail to get my mail,
> I take it I must run sendmail to
> recieve the mail on my local machine.
> Is there an easy way to set up
> sendmail so it only runs when
> I use fetchmail to pick up mail
> or pine to send it or do I have
> to run it as a dameon all the time?
> Linda Hanigan
>
If you are going to use the machine to relay mail to your ISP, then you
need sendmail running all the time. If you configure pine to send
directly to your ISPs mail server, then you do not need sendmail.
Fetchmail can be configured to give the mail directly to procmail, so
you do not need to run sendmail. But running sendmail does not add that
much of a load to the system if you do not have a lot of messages.
Besides, it will let you send mail to other users on your local system.
It can be a handy way to leave messages... You only need to have
sendmail running on one machine on the network.
Mikkel
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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