Re: IMAP server?
Thus spake Craig Dickson:
> Stephen Gran wrote:
>
> > I keep having silently dropped emails to some servers and I can't quite
> > figure out why. My ISP (Comcast - god bless 'em for the speed, but tech
> > support, well, never mind) has been less than helpful about getting it
> > resolved. As I never get a bounce, and the logs say all sent mail sends
> > normally, but several of my friends still complain I never write, I
> > though I would try my hand at setting something up to deliver the mail
> > directly, rather than going through my ISP. Right now I use
> > exim/fetchmail from Woody. Any suggestions? Comments? Rude noises?
>
> If all you're concerned about is outgoing mail, then you have everything
> you need already. Just reconfigure exim (using eximconfig) to be an
> "internet site" instead of uploading all your mail to your ISP's SMTP
> server. Then exim will directly deliver outgoing mail to the
> destination. I have exim set up this way, and it works fine.
Yup -that got it! I kind of thought so, but I wanted to see if perhaps
there was a 'better' way or if the simplest way was the best (as is
usually the case).
Thanks again,
Steve
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