Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 08:06:49AM -0500, Stephen Harris wrote:

On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 07:43:36AM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:

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Fetchmail (and getmail) don't make use of smtp. As their name suggests,

Yes it does.

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From "man fetchmail"

   As each message is retrieved, fetchmail normally delivers it  via  SMTP
   to  port 25 on the machine it is running on (localhost), just as though
   the  SMTP  server  with  an  envelope  recipient  derived in the manner

Well thank you. I actually had the correct thought in my head and typed the wrong word, meaning the write postfix rather than smtp. Although having used getmail for many years, I hadn't realized that fetchmail does use smtp to deliver, so I stand corrected both in fact and intention.

Getmail can reinject through smtp if necessary too, so even the intention was incorrect. I blame it on the lack of caffeine, which I shall now rectify. :)