[sllug-members]: Fetchmail localhost error

[Jared Bernard]

On 3/22/07, Lamont Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com> wrote:
>
> Here's what I would suggest:
>
> 1.  Install either Sendmail or Postfix (Exim sucks and I don't want a
> flame
> war here, QMail is right out for a new mail admin, so don't take that
> suggestion either).  I would recommend Postfix unless you are already
> intimately familiar with the bat book.  The default configuration of
> either
> Sendmail or Postfix in Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu and Gentoo (I
> don't personally know this for sure for any other distros) will *NOT*
> listen
> on the outside interface.  Do not configure your firewall to block
> incoming
> TCP port 25, it should be "not" configured to accept incoming TCP port 25
> (in
> other words, your firewall should block whatever isn't explicitly allowed,
> so
> don't add a rule to allow TCP 25).  Because they don't listen on anything
> but
> the loopback interface (i.e. localhost) your perfectly safe out of the
> box.
>
> 2.  Install fetchmail.  This will probably require a small bit of
> modifications to your MTA configuration so it will accept and deliver mail
> for your accounts when fetchmail feeds it in.
>
> 3.  Install pine.
>
> 4.  Log in as the user the email is being delivered to (as configured in
> fetchmail & your MTA).
>
> 5.  Run pine.
>
> 6.  To send mail, make sure you can connect to your SMTP servers for each
> of
> your accounts and that you can specify which account to use when composing
> messages.
>
> That should do it.  HTH and good luck.



Thanks for everyone's help, I have the perfect email set up working now,
with postfix, fetchmail and mutt (I know, I know.. I was insistent on using
pine, but I've seen the light and I'm really liking mutt now.)

Thanks,
Jared
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