cyrus-imapd howto - SOLVED! + fetchmail question

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 08:29, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mo, den 17.01.2005 schrieb Gene Smith um 1:03:
> 
> > > Ok, everything up to this point is working as described in this 
> > > excellent HOWTO. My problem comes in when I try to do a fetchmail from 
> > > my ISP and place the received email directly into the imap mailbox using 
> > > the lmtp unix socket. Here is my ~/.fetchmail:
> > > 
> > > poll pop.chartertn.net proto pop3 user
> > >         "gds at chartertn.net" password "xxxxxxxxxxxx",
> > >         is "gene" here
> > >     smtphost "/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp"
> > 
> > Leaving out the last line above (smtphost ...) fixes the problem and 
> > mail now appears in imap inbox folder.
> 
> That means your local MTA is used. Which is btw. the default and best
> solution. Although calling the LMTP socket directly should work too - so
> it does here.

I've not been following this thread, but I fail to see why you would
need to have the smtphost "/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp" line.


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