Subject: Re: fetchmail / sendmail question
To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F6rn_Lindstr=F6m?= <bkhl@elektrubadur.se>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/16/2004 13:28:47
In message <s38zn884a21.fsf@numerus.ling.uu.se>, =3D?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=3DF6=
rn_Lindstr
=3DF6m?=3D writes:
>Lubos Vrbka <shnek@tiscali.cz> writes:
>
>> thanks for information, getmail looks interesting. i will use it as a
>> temporary solution - i need it to run asap :) ... but since i plan to
>> setup sendmail for sendind mail from my machine in near future, i'm
>> still looking for answer to my questions regardnig sendmail/fetchmail.=

>
>You can have fetchmail deliver without MTA, too, by delivering to
>e.g. procmail, so setting up getmail shouldn't be necessary.
>

Right; that's what I do:

poll            -----.com
        protocol        pop3    port 995;
        mda             "/home/smb/bin/filtmail %F";
        ssl;
        sslfingerprint "71:79:2F:D6:93:36:35:ED:1B:25:EE:02:E3:58:B2:0B";=


with bin/filtmail like this:

$ cat bin/filtmail
#!/bin/ksh

echo `date` $* >>~smb/.fetchmail-fromlog
/usr/pkg/bin/procmail /home/smb/.procmailrc
exit 0


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb