[Pkg-exim4-users] fetching mails

Marc Haber
Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:25:39 -0000

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:03:01AM -0700, App Xen wrote:
> --- Marc Haber <mh+pkg-exim4-users@zugschlus.de>
> wrote:
> > 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".

That means that exim is ready to receive messages collected by
fetchmail, as fetchmail is an SMTP client to the MTA.

> Is it the job of MUA (mutt in my case) to ask exim to
> get the mails from pop to a local file?

No. It is the job of the local admin to configure fetchmail to do what
it was written to.

Please, fix your quoting.

Greetings
Marc

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