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Re: using exim for simple mail delivery



On 15 Oct 2002, Jamin W.Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:39:18 +0100 Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>
> wrote:
> 
> > This seems very odd. I thought that Debian set up exim more or less by
> > default. 
> 
> It does, for _delivery_ of mail provided to it.  The OP was looking for a
> simple way to deliver and sort mail to local boxes for (presumably) an
> account hosted externally. While exim could be invloved in the solution,
> it would not be the simpliest solution.  As the system is not normally
> connected to the net, the MX server for the account in question would
> probably be at an ISP (or something else remote).  Thus, mail would first
> have to be fetched in some way (fetchmail), then passed on to exim, and
> finally sorted on delivery (procmail/maildrop).  The addition of exim only
> increases the complexity of the solution as you can very easily pass the
> messages retrieved via fetchmail directly to your filtering/sorting
> application (procmail/maildrop).  So, why involve exim?  Now, exim would
> most likely need to be configured to pass messages injected by the MUA
> (mutt in the OP's case) off to either the actual end-recipients MX server
> or the ISP's SMTP server.
> 
> > How could you send and deliver mail without exim or another MTA?
> 
> As I understood it, this wasn't really the OP's question (see above). 
> Perhaps that is why your confused with the responses?
> 

Thanks for the clarification. 

Anthony



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