Re: exim+fetchmail
From: "Marcelo Chiapparini" <chiappa@centroin.com.br>
Subject: exim+fetchmail
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 11:31:11 -0500 (EST)
> Hello!
>
> I am configuring the email in a potato box. I am connected to my ISP via
> modem. I want to use exim+fetchmail+mutt. So far I have some questions,
> and I wonder if someone in this fantastic
> list can help me:
> 4) why the MUAs programs (for example balsa or xfmail) don't need a MTA
> for retrieve the
> messages from the ISP (at last with pop3) but they need a MTA for sending
> the emails (via smtp)?
some MUAs can do SMTP and/or POP3. mutt can do pop3 but most people
use fetchmail instead to do it.
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