Re: exim help needed (fwd)

[Krzys Majewski <majewski@cs.ubc.ca>]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 timmy@pedigree.cs.ubc.ca wrote:

> 
> no i mean you can use exim, i just like to use what i made.
> 
> i think you only really need exim for receiving mail.
> this is how it works i think for most people:
> 
> receiving: fetchmail pull from pop3 server -> localhost port 25 (your
> mta) -> /var/spool/mail/blahblah
> 
> sending: mutt -> piped to program like ssmtp -> your smtp server
> (nslookup mail?) -> ...
> 
> 
> is that what you were asking? 

Yeah except ssmtp is a bit too flaky for me, I think it won't even let
me specify  the port. I  was hoping to  use a regular-joe  mailer like
sendmail or exim. Receiving mail is not a problem, I use IMAP. -chris