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Old 15th March 2013
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Originally Posted by shep View Post
What was confusing was that in my prior implementation of fetchmail, the pop3 part put the messages into /var/mail/user as did sendmail.
Yup, that's because, by default, fetchmail sends (by SMTP) the mail that it picks up to the local MTA such as sendmail, if you're using that. So in the end sendmail puts the mail in its mailbox for you. (You can change the default from local host to another machine with the -S option.)
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