From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 18 12: 9:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mrs-4.smartworld.net (mrs-4.smartworld.net [216.70.64.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2405137B5F5 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 12:09:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dnormandin@freewwweb.com) Received: from dnormandinfreewwweb (cust242.tnt1.dial.cal1.uunet.ca [209.167.219.242]) by mrs-4.smartworld.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA95243; Thu, 18 May 2000 15:08:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <003201bfc0fc$c3da04c0$f2dba7d1@dnormandinfreewwweb.com> From: "Duke Normandin" To: "Erik Trulsson" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: Re: Help! ppp/fetchmail/sendmail Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 10:42:32 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, May 17, 2000 7:04 AM Erik Trulsson 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message