[CentOS] Story of an email

Sat Nov 30 05:50:30 UTC 2013
Keith Keller <kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us>

On 2013-11-30, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Traditional unix programs expect to be able to pipe through an
> executable named sendmail when they want to send mail.   Postfix
> provides such an executable.    I don't know offhand if fetchmail
> pipes through sendmail for local delivery or uses smtp protocol,

fetchmail defaults to using localhost's port 25 to talk SMTP, but can be
configured to use a local MDA instead.

--keith

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