Re: using exim for simple mail delivery
Jamin W.Collins <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net> writes:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:51:59 -0400 (EDT) Mark Carroll
> <mark@chaos.x-philes.com> wrote:
> > 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.)
>
> Not necessarily, fetchmail can easily hand off the message to a MDA rather
> than an MTA.
Addendum:
I have had a look at the different default configs (for Debian) now.
Apparently, by default fetchmail uses the program called sendmail
(which is exim) as MDA, unless told otherwise by putting a line with
"mda <something>" in the .fetchmailrc.
Exim by default uses procmail to do local deliveries whenever a
.procmailrc is present in the user's home directory, and does the
delivery itself (i.e. writing to the corresponding spool file) when
that is not the case.
As filtering is much more easily configured using procmail, it is
usually best to skip exim altogether to receive mail and use the
fetchmail + procmail combination.
Ciao,
Jens
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