On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 01:20:06PM -0800, Peter Easthope wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:48:09PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > You can setup mutt on machine M and have it just pull messages directly > > from machine P via POP. > > Two factors against that. > - P belongs to an ISP which refuses POP access from > a machine not on his WAN. Uggh. > - M is inside a firewall which passes ssh but not POP. > I see. Do you have ssh access to P? Were you planning on tunneling? If so, you can have fetchmail go over the tunnel. Alternatively, does the machine have IMAP access? > > I think that exim is not necessary for your needs. > > fetchmail sends messages to port 25 via SMTP whereas > mutt wants to read messages in /var/mail/peter. > Isn't exim needed to send the port 25 stream into > the spool file? > I don't think so. I think fetchmail can be configured to deliver directly. If not, seting up for local delivery in exim is a simple dpkg-reconfigure away. > > As I said, exim is probably overkill. > > Messages need to be sent also. Isn't exim needed > to send messages to P via SMTP? > Possibly. You can use ssmtp. For exim, however, you will need to wait for someone else on the list to help you out. I don't know a thing about it, as I use postfix on all my machines. > Thanks again, ... Peter E. > np, Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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