Re: fetchmail works -- but so does sendmail

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From: Alan Ford
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.

There are several possible solutions to this problem. You could disable SMTP
mail delivery from Demon's end at:

	https://www.password.uk.demon.net/

Another solution would be to disable access from Demon's machines to sendmail.
I don't use sendmail myself (I use exim), but I imagine that you can tell it
in one of the config files not to accept connections from *anything* in the
outside world (it shouldn't be configured to allow anything outside the
194.217.242 subnet anyway, apart from your local machine or network).

Finally, why not just use SMTP delivery anyway? It's so much easier.

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From: alan@whirlnet.demon.co.uk (Alan Ford)
Subject: Re: fetchmail works -- but so does sendmail
Date: 1999/05/08
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