Re: Relation(exim,fetchmail,mutt)=?
I think the problem with your statement is the word *have*. I don't know
anything about exim and very little about mutt. I use fetchmail, procmail, and
elm/balsa/mahogany (depending on the situation).
fetchmail : fetches the mail and hands it off to a local MDA
procmail : a local MDA that can filter mail to various folders, even other
addresses
elm : a local MUA , reads mail in mbox folders
balsa, mahogany : MUA , can read local folders as well as remote IMAP/POP
Some mailers such as balsa, mahogany, netscape provide the ability to retrieve
mail from the remote server since it is very common to do these days, however
you are not required to configure them for that. fetchmail is a very mature
program that only fetches mail and is independent of the MUA.
Some acronyms:
MTA : Mail Transfer Agent (ie sendmail) : used to transfer mail between servers
MDA : Mail Delivery Agent : used to deliver mail to local users
MUA : Mail User Agent : the program you use to read the mail
HTH,
-D
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 19:38:38 Debian User wrote:
| Can someone explain what's the relation between exim, fetchmail
| and mutt or any other reader? If fetchmail fetches it, then why
| the servers have to be defined again for exim or mutt?
| Thanks,
| A.R.
|
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