On 08/09/13 14:22, Carlos E. R. wrote:
IMO, you should familiarize yourself with the tool chain you are using for email, or you are dead in the water when it fails.
I think/understand that you are using fetchmail to get email from your ISP. This pushses the email to the MTA (Mail Transfer Agent, a component of what people call "Mail Sever"), which usually in openSUSE is postfix. And this one probably pushes email to procmail for local delivery (the MDA or LDA, Message or Local Delivery Agent).
If that is what you are doing, you don't really need postfix; you can configure fetchmail to feed directly to procmail. Or to maildrop. This is explained in fetchmail(1), and I know some people in this list use this method.
If you keep postfix, you can add filtering to it, like amavis. Or use it for sending, too. But as you don't, perhaps it is better to take it out of the equation.
That sounds pretty logical. So I inserted this line in /etc/fetchmailrc: mda "/usr/bin/procmail" ; Then I dropped the fetchmail daemon. But restarting it failed with the following error message: Starting fetchmailfetchmail:/etc/fetchmailrc:8: syntax error at mda startproc: exit status of parent of /usr/bin/fetchmail: 5 Obviously, configuring /etc/fetchmailrc is much more difficult than may result from reading the fetchmail(1) manual page. Bye, Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org