Re: using exim for simple mail delivery
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, David wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:57:25PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote:
(snip)
> > 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..
Then you're using fetchmail, not exim, to receive mail - it's just a
matter of terminology. (Of course, exim performs the local delivery after
'receiving' from fetchmail - that's quite normal.)
-- Mark
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