[Pkg-exim4-users] fetching mails

App Xen
Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:04:31 -0000

Hi Marc
--- Marc Haber <mh+pkg-exim4-users@zugschlus.de>
wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 06:28:23AM -0700, App Xen
> wrote:
> >  I have installed exim-daemon-light and rest of
> the exim debs on sarge. The basic purpose of this is
> to get the mails from pop account of isp to my
> desktop.
> >  I ran
> >  #dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
>
> >  Now how to run exim to download mails from
> isp.com ? Though this can
> >  be done by typical fetchmail I want use exim for
> more flexibility.
>
> exim is not a replacement for fetchmail. It can only
> do SMTP.
I am missing something here. When I run
dpkg-reconfigure exim4-configure, there is an option
"mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or
fetchmail".
Is it the job of MUA (mutt in my case) to ask exim to
get the mails from pop to a local file?

Thanks
Raj


>
> Greetings
> Marc
>
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