Re: fetchmail works -- but so does sendmail

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From: Anthony Campbell
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 00:00

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On Sat, 08 May 99 10:32:28 GMT, Phil Hunt <philh@vision25.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>Does anyone have experience downloading email from the demon POP3
>mailserver?
>
>When I do it, using fetchmail, its does download email; however 
>unfortunately sendmail is running as well and some of the messages get
>downloaded by SMTP -- Demon recognises this and sends an email telling
>me.
>
>I've tried not running sendmail, but this is no good because it causes
>fetchmail to stop working too (fetchmail tries to deliver its mail to 
>sendmail). There's nothing in the Demon section of the fetchmail FAQ,
>either.
>
>I'm running SuSE6.0, if that's any help.
>
>
>-- 
>Phil Hunt....philh@vision25.demon.co.uk
>

I find the same thing, but I use fetchmail only when the punts are refusing
to disgorge. In that case I don't get the emails from demon, although they
don't do any harm in any case; you just delete them.

Anthony



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From: acampbell@achc.demon.co.uk (Anthony Campbell)
Subject: Re: fetchmail works -- but so does sendmail
Date: 1999/05/08
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