Re: [SLUG] MTA dumping mail to another machine

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Well Fetchmail doesn't actually perform the delivery, it hands it off to
localhost:25 . Given that you can tell your MTA to forward the mail to
another machine on your network also of course running a MTA.

-Joe

On Thursday 09 May 2002 11:32 pm, you wrote:
> Without considering IMAP, am I right that email sucked in by fetchmail
> and given to an MTA (like Exim, Sendmail, Postfix) will dump on the
> machine that it's running on, and will _not_ dump to another machine on
> the LAN? In other words, given fetchmail and an MTA, it's not possible
> to dump inbound mail into a /var/spool/mail on a different machine,
> right?
>
> Paul

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