Fetchmail versus Sendmail

[Matthias Andree]

Ismael Valladolid Torres <ismaeval at free.fr> writes:

> As far as I understand, this snippet recommended in Bogofilter FAQ:
>
> # if bogofilter failed, return the mail to the queue, the MTA will
> # retry to deliver it later
> # 75 is the value for EX_TEMPFAIL in /usr/include/sysexits.h
>
> :0e
> { EXITCODE=75 HOST }
>
> Is to be used only if mail is delivered to procmail via an MTA like
> Exim, Postfix or such. I deliver to Procmail directly from Fetchmail
> using option mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T". Shall I remove the
> Procmail recipe?

No. fetchmail needs to know when delivery to the MDA filed, else you'll
lose mail.

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Matthias Andree