On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 20:44 +0000, a.bridge@insightbb.com 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
For local delivery you can use procmail - don't need a SMTP server. I have not done any spam filtering - Yahoo's spam filtering is good enough for me. Here is the relevant section from my .fetchmailrc: poll <your isp pop3 server>: user <isp email id> with password <your isp password> is <local user> here mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" As others have pointed out, you will need a POP3/IMAP server to deliver the messages to the Outlook client. It may already be installed - you need to activate it under the xinetd services. -- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) Walk softly and carry a megawatt laser.