local mail delivery

[me]

Fetchmail retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it via 
SMTP, so it can then be read by normal mail user agents such as mutt, 
elm(1) or BSD Mail. It allows all your system MTA's filtering, 
forwarding, and aliasing facilities to work just as they would on normal 
mail.


in short: it is fetched and inserted into your mta

taken from http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/



greetings
ruediger

mikko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am wondering how should I setup a server.
> I have installed spamassassin, and am using
> fetchmail to get mail from another host.
> Now, I wouldn't want to install procmail.
> 
> I do not understand how the mail travels:
> 
> I make a ssh connection to start imapd
> on the target mail-host with fetchmail, to
> get the mail, but to whom program does
> fetchmail give it to? sendmail? Or does it
> put it directly in the mailspool?
> Some other program?
> 
> I have spamd running, so does it know
> that sendmail/spool/other is getting these mails,
> and would know to scan them?
> 
> I am running 5.1 "out-of-the-box" with
> programs installed from a recent ports-tree.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
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