[plug] email error messages

[Mike Holland]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Christian wrote:

> russ wrote:
> > Do I need sendmail to get mail from a remote host if I am using
> > fetchmail? How do I kill sendmail so it doesn't start at boot or as a

 remove the links  /etc/rc.d/rc*/*sendmail
		These start and stop sendmail on bott up/down.

> You do need sendmail (or superior MTA... *grin*) running if you are
> using fetchmail since it delivers email via the local SMTP port.  My

Not neccesarily. You can tell fetchmail to deliver by any agent, including
procmail, or by forking sendmail directly.

> but it'll probably be fairly obvious if you look in the sendmail
> configuration file.

myhost% less /etc/sendmail.cf
"/etc/sendmail.cf" might as well be a binary file.  See it anyway? 
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R$* < @ localhost > $*      $: $1 < @ $j . > $2     no domain at all
R$* < @ localhost . $m > $* $: $1 < @ $j . > $2     local domain
R$* < @ localhost . UUCP > $*   $: $1 < @ $j . > $2     .UUCP domain
R$* < @ [ $+ ] > $*     $: $1 < @@ [ $2 ] > $3      mark [a.b.c.d]
R$* < @@ $=w > $*       $: $1 < @ $j . > $3     self-literal
R$* < @@ $+ > $*        $@ $1 < @ $2 > $3       canon IP addr
 

Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
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