On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Linda Hanigan wrote:
> <snip>
> >
> > 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
> > --
> >
> I take it procmail is yet another
> program. If I ever figure out all
> the parts I might get this working.
> Thanks
> Linda
>
>
Yes, it is. It handles local mail delivery. It is usualy called by
sendmail to take care of this.
Linda, what are you trying to do? If you just want to have a console
mail program that will read your mail when you are connected to your
ISP, and send messages as well, in the same way Netscape can be set up,
I can help you set up Pine to do this. If you want to set up full mail
service on your local network, and have all the mail downloaded to a
machine on your local network, I can help you set that up too.
I guess the real question is do you want to do. Using fetchmail with a
dialup connection is nice because you can run it from your
/etc/ppp/if-up.local script to get all the mail for local users when
ever you connect to the net. You can also have sendmail send any
waiting messages at the same time.
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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