Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 22:35:59 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se> To: Duke Normandin <dnormandin@freewwweb.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help! ppp/fetchmail/sendmail Message-ID: <20000518223559.A1921@student.csd.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <003201bfc0fc$c3da04c0$f2dba7d1@dnormandinfreewwweb.com>; from dnormandin@freewwweb.com on Thu, May 18, 2000 at 10:42:32AM -0600 References: <003201bfc0fc$c3da04c0$f2dba7d1@dnormandinfreewwweb.com>
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On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 10:42:32AM -0600, Duke Normandin wrote: > 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) Close but not quite :-) Remove the MDA part from out-bound mails and you are there. Normally the MUA invokes the MTA directly. (If you are using FreeBSD 4.0 you can do a 'man mailwrapper' for some extra information on that part.) Otherwise it looks correct. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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