Re: [Fetchmail-users] OAuth2 Configuration Question

[Andrew C A. <fet...@ai...>]

On Tue, 17 May 2022, Dennis Putnam wrote:

> I am in the process of configuring fetchmail 7 for gmail's OAuth2. The
> documentation mentions configuring postfix. Since I am using fetchmail 
> to only retrieve gmail, am I correct that I can ignore the postfix instructions?

Correct.

> I don't see what postfix has to do with reading gmail.

postfix is one of the options for fetchmail to use to deliver the
messages that it has fetched; presumably the one used by the
author of the document you are reading.

I am not sure that fetchmail can actually write the
message to a file itself; I have always used
     wants mda ... /usr/sbin/exim ...
Whilst you don't need postfix you *may* need some equivalent
mta-type program.

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Andrew C. Aitchison					Kendal, UK
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