Re: fetchmail works -- but so does sendmail

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From: Simon Child
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:

>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.

Instead of starting sendmail from /etc/rc3.d/init.d or wherever Suse
does it, start it in /etc/inetd.conf with a -bs switch and it will
receive mail from fetchmail but not from Demon.

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