On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 11:39:06 Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>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.

You only need sendmail running if your mail client uses SMTP for outgoing mail. Some 
clients (Pine, Balsa) can pipe mail to sendmail directly without using an SMTP 
connection. the drawback is that you'll need to start sendmail periodically to flush 
it's queue. If you have a dialup connection, this can be done bay adding the 
appropriate commands to /etc/ppp/ip-up.local.

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