Re: [SLE] Need to use an MTA with Fetchmail??

From: Aaron Bridge (a.bridge_at_insightbb.com)
Date: 08/04/05

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To: "Marlier, Ian" <ian.marlier@studentuniverse.com>

    Marlier, Ian wrote:

    >what's wine for, then?
    >
    >Ken's right; Outlook and fetchmail won't run on the same system, unless you run Outlook inside of an emulator on Linux, or fetchmail within Cygwin.
    >
    >But goodness knows, you're _definitely_ going to want to run Outlook as your mail client. (Note: this is sarcasm. I use Outlook by necessity for my work e-mail account, and am not a fan. Try Thunderbird or another client.)
    >
    >Ken: Nice solution to the "reply/reply-to-list" problem.
    >
    >- Ian
    >
    >
    >-----Original Message-----
    >From: Ken Schneider [mailto:suse-list@bout-tyme.net]
    >Sent: Wed 8/3/2005 10:10 PM
    >To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
    >Subject: Re: [SLE] Need to use an MTA with Fetchmail??
    >
    >On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 19:04 -0400, Aaron Bridge wrote:
    >
    >
    >>James Knott wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>>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
    >>>>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.
    >
    >
    >
    Maybe I have not been clear. I want my Outlook Clients to be able to
    download their email to their local computers running Outlook on Windows
    XP. Only after it has been filtered with spamassassin 

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