Re: exim appropriate for dial-up?
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 01:51:47PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> In view of this, is exim the right choice in such a setting? What is the
> alternative?
Exim works fine for me. I had used smail before, but everyone here said to
use exim.
> Setting up mail on debian seems very complicated compared to the usual
> process on Windows, where you simply configure a client with a few
> parameters. It seems here you have a client and a transport agent to
> configure.
Yes an no. Netscape, I think, has its own transport agent; it's an MTA and
MUA all balled into one. So I would think that if you only use Netscape for
mail/news, you wouldn't have to worry about a real MTA.
> Retreiving mail uses POP, and there is no
> reference to POP in the exim manual as far as I can tell.
You'll want fetchmail for getting the POP mail. It's pretty easy to set up.
It even has an "easy set-up" setting.
Like another poster mentioned, I get a lot of mail from lists. Using exim,
fetchmail, procmail and mutt couldn't make me happier.
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David J. Kanter
djkanter@nwu.edu
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