From: Ken M. <zar...@nt...> - 2024-10-30 16:28:06
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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 -- I saw an eagle fly once. Fortunately, I had my eagle fly swatter handy. |