Re: [Sheflug] Security (again, the final word)

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Will" == Will Newton <will [at] misconception.org.uk> writes:

    Will> On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

    >> You can still send mail via your ISPs mailservers without
    >> having to run sendmail.

    Will> IIRC sendmail is needed by fetchmail for delivery to local
    Will> spools. It's pretty easy to limit SMTP connections to merely
    Will> your local box though.

Strictly speaking, I don't think it needs SMTP, although that's the
preferred way to do it (and by far the easiest).  IIRC, you can
actually feed directly from fetchmail into a local MDA such as
procmail or deliver via a pipe.

It definitely doesn't need sendmail, any smptd (qmail, exim, etc) will
do.


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