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Date:   Thu, 18 May 2000 22:35:59 +0200
From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se>
To: Duke Normandin <dnormandin@freewwweb.com>
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Subject: Re: Help! ppp/fetchmail/sendmail
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In-Reply-To: <003201bfc0fc$c3da04c0$f2dba7d1@dnormandinfreewwweb.com>; from dnormandin@freewwweb.com on Thu, May 18, 2000 at 10:42:32AM -0600
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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.







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