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fetchmail feature

Posted Sep 23, 2008 13:29 UTC (Tue) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
In reply to: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds by spaetz
Parent article: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds

The Fetchmail POP client used to deliver to the system SMTP daemon by default, so you needed sendmail running before you could check your mail. Now the preferred alternative seems to be either a desktop all-in-one mail program, or OfflineIMAP.


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