Re: fetchmail works -- but so does sendmail

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From: Phil Hunt
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 00:00

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In article <g261h7.774.ln@anacon.demon.co.uk>
           mpe@anacon.demon.co.uk "Mark Evans" writes:
> 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.
> 
> Two choices
> 1) Have sendmail only accept connections from 127.0.0.1. e.g. using
> ipfwadm/ipchains.

Would this let me send mail? IOW, if I did this, would it stop sendmail
receiving amil from Demon, but still allow it to send mail out.

> 2) There is an option to turn of SMTP delivery on the configuation
> webpage 
> 

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

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From: philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
Subject: Re: fetchmail works -- but so does sendmail
Date: 1999/05/09
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