Re: exim right choice?

[Quenten Griffith <qgriffith@edm1.com>]

My ISP only lets me get my mail if I am on their network so what I did 
was setup fetchmail to go poll my ISP Pop email box and pull it into my 
Debian box sitting at home and drop it into an IMAP account then I use 
Kmail or the webmail program I set up to check my mail from work/friends 
houses etc.  Since it drops it off into a local IMAP server I don't have 
to worry about leaving my mail behind and losing it and trying to 
remember where that important email that I got is, if I pulled it in at 
work or what, with IMAP the mail sits on the server till I delete it. 
Then I use my own sendmail SMTP to send mail out (my ISP has had bad 
problems with their SMTP server going down)

Steve Waterman wrote:

> Just run kmail, let it grab the mail from your isp's server.  
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> For local smtp transport (to your smtp server at the isp), ssmtp is a nice, 
> easily configurable replacement for sendmail or exim.
>
> No reason to make it complicated than necessary.
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> On Thursday 19 September 2002 06:12, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > i currently use a dual boot win98/debian 3.0. Since i'm having so much fun 
> >    
> with debian, i am going to put my Suse 7.2 server on debian too.
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> > While i'm doing this, i would like to set up a simple mail retrieving 
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> mechanism.
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> > I think exim will do the job fine but i want to be sure :-)
> > My network is setup like this: the dualboot pc behind the suse 7.2 server 
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> which has connection to the internet via cable.
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> > I have 2 mailboxes at my isp, 1 for me and 1 for my wife. So i would like 
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> exim to run on my soon-to-be debian server and check the mailbox from me and 
> my wife at my isp's site every x minutes and store the mail locally on my 
> server.
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> > Then i would use Kmail (or another client) to connect to my server and get 
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> the mail from there instead of from my isp. Of course, i don't want to 
> retrieve the mail from my wife. Would save me a lot of time since i'm 
> currently subscribed to a couple of debian mailing lists and they are quite 
> busy:-)
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> > When sending mail, my mail client should send it to my server which then 
> >    
> would take care of sending it to my isp's pop3 server.
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> > The whole setup would add an extra step: instead of email client - isp it 
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> would be email client - local server - isp.
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> > Is a combo of kmail / exim able to do this without to much trouble?
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> > Thanks
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