MTA issues.

Robert Slade ubtu at bathnetworks.com
Fri Feb 10 21:31:36 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 20:50 +0000, Anders Karlsson wrote:
> On 2/10/06, Robert Slade <ubtu at bathnetworks.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> > The sort answer is no. If you use fetchmail that will download from a
> > pop3 or imap box and hand off to your MTA - Ubuntu has postfix
> > installed.
> 
> fetchmail does _not_ require a MTA. If you use procmail you don't go
> near the MTA unless you want/need to.
> 
> --
> Anders Karlsson <trudheim at gmail.com>

You are right of course! procmail can be used in place of a MTA for
handling the incoming mail. 

Another example of the different solutions available.

Rob





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