Re: EXIM

[dude <dude@deletia.com>]

Well, i would be interested i replying to mail that i have fetched.


On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Philipp Schulte wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 05:44:06PM -0600, dude wrote: 
> 
> > I would like to confiugre my EXIM, but even after reading the docs,
> > i still dont know what exactly to do.
> > 
> > my set up is that i have an account at csoft.net where i log in to check
> > my mail
> 
> Well, that has got nothing to do with exim. Exim is a MTA, it
> *delievers* mail and doesn't fetch it.
> To fetch mail use fetchmail ;) Configuring fetchmail is pretty
> easy. Install it by apt-get (if it not installed already) and create a
> file called ~/.fetchmailrc




yes, i have seen that one done.  thanks for making the clear

> 
> poll your.mail.server proto POP3 user your.user password XXX
> 
> > what configuration would be best when setting up exim?
> 
> If you also want to deliever mail, then you should specify a so called
> "smarthost" in your exim.conf - which is your ISP's SMTP-Server.

so when exim asks for the host site, i should specify mail.csoft.net(for
instance)
and have fetchmail configured so i can get mail

thanks for your time.
g




> Phil
>