Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 10:42:32 -0600 From: "Duke Normandin" <dnormandin@freewwweb.com> To: "Erik Trulsson" <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Re: Help! ppp/fetchmail/sendmail Message-ID: <003201bfc0fc$c3da04c0$f2dba7d1@dnormandinfreewwweb.com>
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On Wednesday, May 17, 2000 7:04 AM Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se>
wrote
>Not quite. The sequence of events when you get mail is bascially:
[snipped for brevity]
To summarize:
out-bound:
+---------+ +-------+ +------+
| MUA | ----> | MDA | ----> | MTA |
+---------+ +-------+ +------+
pine procmail sendmail
mutt mail qmail
elm
in-bound:
+--------+ +------------+ +-----------+
| ISP | -----> | Fetchmail | ---> | sendmail |
+--------+ +------------+ +-----------+
+------+ +-------+ |
| MUA |<-- | MDA | <----^----> bounced / relayed
+------+ +-------+
Should be close (I hope)
>The advantage of procmail is that you can sort the incoming mail depending
>on the contents.
>(For example, having mail from a mailing list end up in its own mailbox
>instead of being mixed with other mail.)
Yep.... that's what I want (will have) eventually!
>>My guess is that you haven't managed to tell sendmail which
>addresses/domains are to be considered 'local' and so sendmail will just
>send the mail on.
That ain't the only thing I haven't managed to do with FBSD ;) But between
you, Jeffrey Dunitz, Salvo, Doug Young, Brian Somers and a few others ---
THANK YOU ALL -- I'll get this puppy wagging it tail pretty soon.
regards....duke
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