Re: using exim for simple mail delivery
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:57:25PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> David <dbree@duo-county.com> writes:
>
> > Exim (or at least 3.35) can distribute mail to different mailboxes. If
> > I understand some of the posters in this thread, they have stated that
> > you cannot, but this is what I'm doing.
>
> Obviously it can. But you just don't want to use exim _at all_ to
> receive mail on a machine that is not permanently connected to the
> Internet (unless you really know what you're doing).
Why is this? I'm using it on a dialup account. Perhaps we are talking
about different usages here. What I do is retrieve my mail from my
ISP's mailserver using POP3 with fetchmail. As I said in my previous
post, using Exim for this purpose may be overkill, but AFAICT, it works..
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