8.04 MTA?

[Derek Broughton]

Dan Farrell wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:42:47 -0300
> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> 
>> > I was unaware that an MTA isn't required for a desktop
>> > installation. I thought it was neccessary to transfer the mail from
>> > the server to the MUA, or in my case to Procmail.
>> 
>> Procmail can do that itself.

I can't believe I said that.  What I was really thinking was that I use
Fetchmail to get mail, and do deliver it to a local MTA, but could just
deliver it to Procmail directly.
> 
> What mail server wouldn't be running POP or IMAP?  The MUA should be
> able to pull (or view) the mail directly from(on) th server!

Absolutely.
-- 
derek