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Re: [fetchmail]Fetchmail = MUA or MTA ?

2001-06-09 23:06:44
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, antoine wrote:

hello,
Is fetchmail a MUA as Kmail
or a MTA, as Sendmail , Qmail or Postfix ?
Yes.

thanks
antoine
I do so like doing that; I usually only get to make the third answer when
people say "Do you like tea or coffee?" but you get long suffering looks
the second time. :-)

Okay, I'll explain. It all depends on what you want, fetchmail will do
both; even though the protocols it uses  (IMAP, POP, etc etc) are MUA
protocols it will pass on messages to an SMTP service without modification
just as a normal MTA.

-- 
Rob.                          (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
                                       <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>




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