Sendemail... is there a receivemail?

Linux and Unix-Like Ubuntu
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Hello,

I installed the

sendemail

program for commandline/script outgoing mail. It works great. I was wondering if there is some simple program to receive mail. Something like the sendemail program...

Grtz

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Did you look into the fetchmail package?

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sendmail is a MTA (Mail Transfer Agent). You need a MDA (Mail Delivery Agent) to handle incoming email. An MDA accepts mail from an MTA and performs the actual delivery to a user's mailbox. A user then uses a MUA (Mail User Agent) to read their mailbox.

There are many MDAs available. procmail is a very common one.

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sendmail can also receive mail. It must run as a service/daemon and listen to port 25(smtp) at all network interfaces.
It usually comes with mail.local that creates Unix mailbox files.

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Just in case, note that the OP specified sendemail, not sendmail. Perhaps it's a typo, but there is such a program and it is available via ubuntu's package repositories.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/sendemail
http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/

Regards,
Alister

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Yep.. it's a typo in the title. It's sendemail I'm using with Ubuntu DT 10.

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Never heard of it. Well..I installed it today and I think this is what I was looking for. Thanks.

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