Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:05:19 +0000 From: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssmtp fails to open smtp server Message-ID: <20041215110519.GA62907@catflap.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <41BFC361.10200@socal.rr.com> References: <41BFC361.10200@socal.rr.com>
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On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 08:53:53PM -0800, Gary Schenk wrote:
> Yep, these typos are killing me. That got ssmtp working, and I'm sending=
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> mail out quite nicely with mutt now. However, into each life a little=20
> rain must fall. Fetchmail is no longer working. After googling the error=
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> message I found that fetchmail uses sendmail to deliver mail to my=20
> mail spool, and I disabled sendmail after installing ssmtp. Hoepfully I=
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> can find a way to get fetchmail to deliver directly to my spool. Back to=
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> the man pages.
If you don't mind the added complexity, you can always tell fetchmail to
use procmail as your local delivery agent. This gives you the
opportunity then to filter and sort mail as it comes in.
poll your.mail.host
user 'you@mail.host' there with password 'XXXXXXXX' is 'you' here=20
and wants mda /usr/local/bin/procmail
Just a thought.
Dan
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