re: fetchmail question

["dan moylan-3" <user=1052@nabble.blu.org>]

jarod writes: 
> Ah, okay, that makes more sense. You're fetching from a 
> remote host,  where fetchmail sees 198 messages, and 
> deliver them to your local  system. In that case, it 
> sounds like you indeed have no MTA running  on your 
> system. In Fedora-land, we install an MTA by default, and 
> have it set to run, only listening on localhost. 
> Apparently, that's  not the case for Ubuntu. If I'm 
> remembering correctly, postfix is the  default MTA for 
> Ubuntu, but I dunno if it would already be installed  and 
> just not running or if you need to install an MTA.