Re: [Fetchmail-users] Local delivery - smtp or sendmail

[Hans C. <fo...@gm...>]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2025, Matthias Andree via Fetchmail-users wrote:

> Am 11.11.25 um 21:24 schrieb Hans Carlson via Fetchmail-users:
>>
>>  Sooo... if I don't actually want any restrictions on fetchmail, then is
>>  there any reason NOT to use sendmail for delivery instead of SMTP?
>
> The concerns are
>
> - you're breaking up the tight coupling between the SMTP server (Postfix) and 
> the client (fetchmail), so...
>
> - that you won't notice from fetchmail's end if the Postfix service goes down 
> (which it doesn't ever do for me, Postfix is one of the nicer things in 
> software) because the sendmail command should always be able to enqueue the 
> message, even after "postfix stop", but they won't get delivered

Thanks for the clarification.  In that case, I'll setup postfix to listen 
on port 25 for fetchmail and port 587 for alpine.  That way I should be 
able to configure different restrictions based on the port.