[fetchmail]SMTP problem

[Rob Funk]

Bo Grimes wrote:
> Rob MacGregor wrote:
> >Hmmm, try opening up /etc/aliases - set the group ownership to numeric
> >112.  That may fix all your problems.
>
> If by that you mean chmod 112 /etc/aliases, as root obviously, then it
> didn't work,

He meant you should chgrp, not chmod.
Now you need to "chmod 644 /etc/aliases" because 112 is almost the oposite 
of the permissions you want there.

> >You also need a local POP/IMAP server.
>
> Crap!  Not a popserver anywhere, locally.  Doh!  :Smacking forehead:::

No, don't worry about it.  Really.

What you want with fetchmail is:
ISP ---> Fetchmail ---> Local SMTP ---> Local spool (/var/mail/fred)
And then mutt reads the /var/mail/fred file.

A POP/IMAP server just adds a step that's unnecessary here.  In that case 
it would actually look like:
ISP ---> Fetchmail ---> Local SMTP ---> Local spool ---> POP/IMAP server
Because the POP/IMAP server has to read the mail from somewhere.

> I still don't understand how mail in Evolution gets from my machine to
> my isp, though, but I'm not that concerned about it at the moment if
> it's not useful for this discussion.

Evolution talks SMTP to your ISP when sending mail, the same way Exim or 
Postfix or Sendmail would send mail to another machine.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMTP
Evolution is a big all-in-one program, while the traditional Unix side of 
things tends to take more of a one-program-per-task approach

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