Send/receive mail in text mode in ubuntu

[Rashkae]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> John L Fjellstad wrote:
> 
>> Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> writes:
>>
>>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>>> You can't avoid "sendmail".  You're going to need _some_ mail transfer
>>>> agent, and they all implement sendmail.
>>> This is not really correct,, Sendmail implements smtp.. so does postfix
>>> and Exim... they do not 'implement' sendmail.
>> Most MTA on unix systems implements the sendmail binary these days so
>> that calling /usr/sbin/sendmail to send your email is pretty much
>> standard
> 
> Thank you John.  In fact, they implement sendmail specifically because
> calling /usr/sbin/sendmail was already the standard before Linux existed.


The original poster said he didn't want to install Sendmail or Postfix. 
Just because an MTA symlinks /bin/sendmail to itself (for compatibility 
reasons) doesn't meant you're installing sendmail.

And since the OP's only problem with fetchmail was no locally running 
smtp, installing Exim, had it been successful, *would* have solved his 
fetchmail problem.  However, given his particular 
requirements/preferences, I think he is best configuring fetchmail to 
use maildrop instead of a locally running smtp MTA.