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Re: using exim for simple mail delivery



On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Jamin W.Collins wrote:

> 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.

Given that the person I was replying to thought he was receiving mail with
exim, probably exim really was doing the local delivery.

-- Mark



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