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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?

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

Paul

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 

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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