Re: block emails with Fetchmail...

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Phil wrote:
ok thank you...

So do I replace fetchmail with procmail or is procmail in addition to?


Procmail is a local mailer. Once your MTA (such as Sendmail, QMail, PostFix) decides to deliver a message locally (to a local mailbox), it hands the mail over to a local mailer. This can be procmail, but also (for example) Cyrus.

Once fetchmail fetches your email, it'll send the mail to the host it is running on on port 25. The man page is clear on that:

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As each message is retrieved fetchmail normally delivers it via SMTP to port 25 on the machine it is run- ning on (localhost), just as though it were being passed in over a normal TCP/IP link. fetchmail provides the SMTP server with an envelope recipient derived in the manner described previously. The mail will then be delivered locally via your systemâs MDA (Mail Delivery Agent, usually sendmail(8) but your system may use a different one such as smail, mmdf, exim, postfix, or qmail). All the delivery-control mechanisms (such as .forward files) normally available through your system MDA and local delivery agents will there-
       fore work automatically.


Kind regards,

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Jeroen van Meeuwen, LPIC-1, MCP
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