Re: How getmail deals with delivery errors and with bounce e-mails

On Tue, 2020-11-03 at 13:57 +0000, RW wrote:
> getmail was designed to avoid the use of an MTA.
>
Maybe so - if its on a single host whose only internet connection is to
an, ISP and there are no other mail-related programs apart from MUAs on
it.

But things have moved on from there, and these days every *nix box
except for the very small (RaspberryPi, Arduino and friends) defaults to
running an MTA. Given this, about the only real reason for using
getmail, unless you're stuck with a Windows box, is to avoid having any
externally accessible ports on your public facing firewall. This is why
I use it.

Finally, the system I've been running for over 15 years seemed to be
similar enough to what the OP wanted that it was worth outlining whats
involved. And, it would seem from his response that the OP agreed.
 
Martin