On 08/19/2014 08:29 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Yes, you can do it explicitly in fetchmail, but you can let fetchmail simply handle over the email to the system MTA (postfix), which explicitly finally handles it over to the LDA, typically procmail.
I'm aware of that and yes I used to do that. But somewhere along the way I figured that since the fetchmail was only bringing in local email, why route it through Postfix? It was for local delivery anyway. So I looked at how Postfix was punting local delivery off to procmail and just had fetchmail send directly to procmail. You can see this in the fragment of the fetchmail I posted in response to James' posting of his fragment of fetchmail. Let me repeat: if its local, as it is with the single use systems James and I are dealing with, then there is no need for the complex and powerful capability of Postfix to be between a fetchmail for local deliver and a procmail that does filtering of local delivery. Things light be different in a multi user system or ISP. In a fringe case, my procmail rules _might_ send off-site by using postfix/sendmail as a delivery agent. That is not precluded, but its also not necessitated. Eliminating Postfix from the fetchmail~~procmail~~INBOX path simplifies things and eliminates one possible source of confusion. -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org