On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:23:41PM -0400, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote: > Port 25 doesn't actually enter into this (the initial retrieval of > the mail), since fetchmail is an outbound connection. But when > fetchmail is ready to deliver, it connects to your local machine on > port 25. Sorry, this is actually assuming fetchmail uses a TCP connection to deliver mail. I'm still not sure what method it uses, since I haven't used fetchmail in years. If it just uses the /usr/lib/sendmail binary, then all this is moot, and port 25 *never* enters into the equation.
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