fetchmail on Solaris

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

I've done consulting for this one company, part of which entailed 
maintaining an email-based transaction processing system.  Emails come in, 
sendmail pipes it through the perl script that enacts the transactions and 
pemail sends a response email.

They don't have any UNIX geeks there, and want to move away from sendmail.  
They are going to use http://www.webmail.us for their email hosting, and 
want to figure out how to make the script work with it.

My first guess is that we should install fetchmail on the Solaris box.  
Looks to me like I can use the -m option to have fetchmail pipe the 
mail to the script exactly as it exists now.  If I can do that I don't 
think I need sendmail at all.  Is that the case?

If I tried to do this, though, wouldn't I still need sendmail so the 
outgoing mail to the wemail.us server?

My plan B, then, would be to use fetchmail to get the mail from webmail.us 
and forward the email to the local sendmail, which will then do the same 
exact voodoo that it do now.  Outgoing I need to tell sendmail to send to 
webmail.us, I guess.  That's the SmartHost feature, right?

Thanks, and sorry for rambling a little.  I'm still a little fuzzy on my 
options.


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