Re: Automatic Backup of pop3 email

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Author: Craig White
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Automatic Backup of pop3 email
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 07:06, Bill Jonas wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:21:51PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > I'm not sure about this
>
> "If no port 25 listener is available, but your fetchmail configuration
> was told about a reliable local MDA, it will use that MDA for local
> delivery instead. At build time, fetchmail normally looks for executable
> procmail(1) and sendmail(1) binaries."
>
> "-m <command> | --mda <command>
>     (Keyword: mda) You can force mail to be passed to an MDA
>     directly (rather than forwarded to port 25) with the --mda or -m
>     option.  [...] Some possible MDAs are [...] '/usr/bin/procmail
>     -d %T'."

>
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-man.html

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yeah, I just didn't think that it was the default behavior (which is the
statement that you made that I wasn't sure of), not that it couldn't do
it. There is some value to passing it through sendmail's rulesets - at
least I think that there is for me - YMMV

Craig

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