Re: fetchmail works -- but so does sendmail

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From: Mark Evans
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 00:00

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

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From: Mark Evans <mpe@anacon.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: fetchmail works -- but so does sendmail
Date: 1999/05/08
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