Re: using exim for simple mail delivery
David <dbree@duo-county.com> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:57:25PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> > 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..
Yes, I was thinking of using exim as a mail transfer agent speaking
SMTP to other servers which is a very bad idea for receiving mail to a
computer that is not permanently connected and possibly has a dynamic
IP address.
You are absolutely right that exim _can_ be used for local mail
delivery (as MDA) and is used as such in many setups. However,
procmail is much better suited for this job and I would therefore
strongly recommend putting 'mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"' in your
.fetchmailrc to use it.
Ciao,
Jens
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