Postfix + fetchmail puzzle

[Peter King]

Okay, here's something strange. I'm trying to set
up simple email under OS X. The mailer is postfix,
with which I am not familiar.

I set postfix to use the relayhost for outgoing mail,
and I use fetchmail and procmail for incoming mail.
Fetchmail is set to run as a daemon process all the
time: fetchmail -d 450.

Curiously, it doesn't seem to work. In order for me
to actually get my mail, I have to send a message to
myself. Sending an outbound message somehow causes
either fetchmail or postfix to wake up, and within a
few minutes I have the latest iteration of email.

Any idea what's happening here? As I said, I don't
know anything about postfix, or about OS X for that
matter. I have used sendmail + fetchmail + procmail
and exim + fetchmail + procmail successfully in the
past, on OpenBSD and Debian machines.

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