Re: [Hampshire] Sending emails

On 25/01/07, Simon Huggins <huggie@???> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:37:14AM +0000, Fintan Gaughan wrote:
> > I did not know postfix could affect fetchmail. so when I removed
> > postfix and installed sendmail fetchmail does not work
>
> That's because fetchmail is overkill for most users. I have lost track
> of the number of times, one of my friends or I lost mail to it and its
> stupid error mechanisms.
>
> Every time it failed it failed due to the MTA being setup wrongly which
> is arguably not fetchmail's fault. However downloading mail and
> forwarding it to an MTA (i.e. postfix/exim) is oftentimes entirely the
> wrong approach for a single user of a pop/imap mailbox.
>
> I switched to getmail4 and didn't have any such problems with it. It
> will simply and easily dump mail straight into a mailbox or you can pump
> them to an MDA like procmail if you so desire.
>
> Please, please try to persuade any users of fetchmail to stop using it
> so they don't fall into the traps that many previous users of fetchmail
> before them have fallen into.
>

Thanks for that Simon looks really intresting , reading it at work so
soon as i am at home i will try that out.

Fintan