block emails with Fetchmail...

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

Greetings Paul ,

Paul Howarth wrote:
> Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
>>> Sendmail uses it for local mail delivery by default on Fedora, and it
>>> can also be used to deliver mail by fetchmail if you like.

< snip >

> Sendmail isn't "tricked" by the altered "To:" address; what fetchmail 
> has done is to forward the mail to a new (local) address. All sendmail 
> is doing is delivering the mail just as it would for any other mail it 
> was handling.
> 
> Fetchmail doesn't have to work this way though. 

Out of the box it does .

If you use fetchmail's
> "mda" option, it can invoke procmail directly and not use sendmail at all.
> 
I have to admit that i missed that part entirely .

> Paul.
>

Kostas