[Fetchmail-users] fetchmail-6.5.0 questions

[Ken M. <zar...@nt...>]

Hi,

I see that fetchmail no longer supports using an MDA as SMTP
fallback.

Sending mail to lists, and getting the incoming, for a home user has
become increasingly complex and I try not to change my setup. As
best I can understand (several years since I had to change it apart
from a password), I'm doing the following: (one human user on my
systems).

1. postfix on home server, running as servername.mydomain.

2. outgoing: postfix connects to my ISP's server using Cyrus-SASL.

3. incoming: a cron job to run fetchmail authenticating to my ISP
and retrieving POP3.

I have always specified --enable-fallback=procmail, but I see that
my fetchmailrc has a comented-out invocation of procmail with a
comment that procmail is not needed for that if the mail server is
correctly setup.

Am I worrying unnecessarily ?

I see that procmail was originally specified so that if the mail
server was not responding, mail would be processed by procmail. I
assume (if I do not need to change anything) that if my local server
does not respond then the mail will just be queued ?

En passant (testing configure on a desktop without kerberos):
 CFLAGS:   -g -O2 -I/usr/kerberos/include
looks a bit odd : /usr/kerberos ?

ĸen
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