Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 19:04 -0400, Aaron Bridge wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
> 
> >a.bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I have fetchmail setup to download messages from my companies ISP.  It is doing
> >>that correctly for my test account.  However when I use the email client
> >>(Outlook in this Case) i cannot download the messages to Outlook.  
> >>
> >>Am I missing a part here.  Do I need to also be using Sendmail or Postfix along
> >>with fetchmail in order to allow Outlook to download the messages.  Although I
> >>am not new to Linux this is my first attempt at something like this so any
> >>additional help or ideas would be very helpful.  The end result I want is to use
> >>SpamAssasin to filter Spam before the User can download it.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >You need to set up a local pop or imap (preferred) mail server.
> >
> >  
> >
> Isn't that was fetchmail does?
> 
> 
I wasn't aware of fetchmail running on a system running Outlook.

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Ken Schneider
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