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Re: Does exim work with fetchmail?



> I currently use smail which works well with fetchmail.
> 
> I thought I'd try exim since this is becoming standard in potato, but
> although local mail works I can't get any mail via pop3 and fetchmail.
> There's a fetchmail error message saying something like: "Can't even
> send to ac" [my username}.  It seems to be an SMTP problem.
> 
> I imagine there's something I should change in /etc/exim.conf but the
> things I've tried haven't worked.
> 
> Is anyone successfully using exim with fetchmail?
> 

exim works fine with fetchmail on my machine. I also had a problem with the pair (exim, fetchmail) that turned out to be because the relevant line was deleted from /etc/inetd.conf. But your description does not match it. 
Perhaps you can post the exactly what fetchmail error message is ? 


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