Re: installation

Marco Paganini <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.active-spam-killer.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Ingo,

> none of these are installed. i think fetchmail can forward mails directly 
> to port 25 via tcp/ip (or so i remember from some documentation).
> yeah. de-installed sendmail, and everything still works fine.

Yes, but to forward emails via port 25, you need sendmail running. :)

> o.k. re-installed it for ask.
> ... yes, and there is /usr/sbin/sendmail there.
> 
> surprisingly, now, all my mails go through and none are lost.
> but ask does not filter anything. like the .forward file
> is not read ...
> it seem's like the .forward file does not kick in.
> no output whatsoever in /var/log/mail files ...
> any ideas ???

Hmmm... I believe fetchmail is somehow delivering mails directly. What do you
have in your .fetchmailrc file? Can you run fetchmail with -v -v and show me
the results?

Regards,
Paga

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