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Re: IT'S WORKING! (Re: Procmail will not .forward)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Tue Oct 22 11:17:07 1996

Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:09:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Dwight Johnson wrote:

> Now it's working! All I did was change from my normal getmail
> script which uses popclient-2.21-5 to my new pop
> client, Fetchmail-1.8, running as a daemon every 12 minutes.
> 
> Can anyone explain it?

Popclient stores mail directly in /var/spool/foo while fetchclient delivers
mail via the local sendmail agent.

That's just a hunch, but I know the last part is true.

Erik

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