[Mailman-Users] Fetchmail? + mailmain + SMTP on different servers

[Mark Sapiro]

Glen Low wrote:
>>
>If I understand the process properly (after doing the appropriate 
>research), why would I need a procmail step at all?
>
>I set up my fetchmail to poll a POP3 server for incoming mail to 
>LISTNAME-admin, LISTNAME-bounces etc. Each fetchmail rc line has mda 
>set directly to mailman, avoiding the procmail step entirely -- am I 
>missing something?
>
>e.g.
>
>poll something.com with protocol pop3 username "LISTNAME" there with 
>password "XXX" is "mailman" here mda "sudo -u mailman 
>/usr/share/mailman post LISTNAME"

It seems you don't need the procmail step. I'm not fetchmail literate
so when you mentioned procmail, I knew that would work. But as you
describe it, as long as you can get each listname-* address separately
with fetchmail and pipe it to the appropriate command, that's all you
need.

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