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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.
> 

I collect mail via pop3 by not running sendmail when the machine starts and
then configuring fetchmail (via the .fetchmailrc file) to add an 'mta' line
at the bottom:

.fetchmailrc (incomplete example)
proto pop3
mta "/usr/bin/sendmail -bm username"

This has the disadvantage that if I wish to collect email on the linux
machine for another user I must fetch the mail again with a different rc
file but I do this so rarely that it's not inconvenient. This combined with
a small .procmailrc to junk the spam has made mail handling quite easy. 

Now, if I could only figure out why I cannot connect to Demon via the Linux
machine 4 out of 5 tries (and yet always can from windows) I'd be happy.