[CentOS] Story of an email

Sat Nov 30 20:14:34 UTC 2013
David Benfell <benfell at parts-unknown.org>

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On 11/30/2013 04:43 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> 
> Fetchmail (and getmail) don't make use of smtp.  As their name
> suggests, they get mail, pulling it from a pop or imap server,
> whether on your ISP or local server.  From there, they might send
> it elsewhere, depending upon the setup.

The traditional, and I believe default, fetchmail setup is to hand off
to SMTP for local delivery.

I've always found this problematic and usually overridden it. But as
I'm using getmail these days (fetchmail is just too fussy in general),
I don't have an example configuration to share.

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David Benfell
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