From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 1 12: 3:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E289F37B401 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 12:03:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C1B743EAF for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 12:03:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net) Received: from nkinkade by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18IaJC-000092-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 01 Dec 2002 12:03:18 -0800 Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 12:03:18 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail / Fetchmail / Procmail / Mozilla Message-ID: <20021201200318.GA467@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> Reply-To: nkinkade@dsl-only.net Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3DEA0CB4.3030204@p6m7g8.com> <20021201184537.GD86826@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021201184537.GD86826@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:45:37PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > If I want to use fetchmail to snag email from say 4 different pop acounts > > and then filter it with procmail and use mozilla to read it (which I've > > read is trivial to do), what parts of sendmail (or any mta) must I > > have running minimally on localhost. > > none. you don't need sendmail to accept mail through fetchmail (just > have it store messages directly in your mailbox instead of pulling > them through sendmail; you get an added bonus of preventing mail > loops in case you manage to misconfigure either part), and you don't > need sendmail to send mail from mozilla, as it has its own > implementation of a smtp client, just like any other clickoid mail > client (IOW, it bypasses the standard, which is passing the message > to sendmail on the command line.) > > note however, that disabling sendmail completely will cripple your > system in that you will no longer receive the valuable output from > periodic(8) scripts, and possibly in other areas. Why would disabling sendmail cripple all of the periodic scripts? Other than those scripts that relate specifically to an MTA, which others would be affected? Also, if you have another MTA just edit /etc/mail/mailer.conf to point to your new MTA, as the various invocations of sendmail are just wrappers that use the mailer.conf file to determine exactly what they should be executing. I recently left sendmail in favour of Exim. A few tweaks to mailer.conf and one or two minor changes to a few of the periodic scripts and everything is in order. Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message