🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <37341A04.777B0C03@canix.co.uk> paul@canix.co.uk "Paul Black" writes:
> philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt) 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.
> 
> If SMTP is working, why worry about using POP3?

Because will POP3 you can download email and still have it remain on 
the server, or download mail for some accounts but not others. AFAIK
you can't do this with SMTP.

> You will need to prevent sendmail from getting the mail from Demon.

How? My understanding is that there should be a sendmail.m4 file
which m4 converts to sendmail.cf, which controls how sendmail works.
However, there is no sendmail.m4 on my system. sendmail.cf looks a
bit intimidating -- like rather bad ascii art in fact.

> Sendmail can use TCP wrappers to control connections, not done it so
> I can't help you. The Linux firewall can be used to prevent connections
> from external machines (you are running a firewall, aren't you?).

No, should I be? (I've got a dial-up account, not a machine permanently
connected).

-- 
Phil Hunt....philh@vision25.demon.co.uk