Jens Grivolla wrote: > > So you want to _receive_ mail with exim on a machine that is only > temporarily connected to the internet? > > This is possible if you know what you're doing (and have a permanently > connected machine elsewhere that relays to you). However, it does not > really look like this is the case (no offense meant). > > The "only one email address" part makes me think you really want to > poll an external mailbox using POP3 or IMAP. Exim does not have > anything to do with this, you need to use fetchmail or a MUA that does > it. Fetchmail would usually use procmail as a MDA. I rather meant the sorting tasks, not the recieving. For more please see below:
> > Unfortunately I can't figure out if mutt is able > > to handle multiple inboxs on only one > > email account. The mutt help only seems to discribe > > the marking of maillist mail with the help of the 'lists' > > definitions in ~/muttrc. > > Again, it is not clear what you mean by "only one email account". > Once the mail is delivered on your system there are no mail accounts > but different folders or spool files. The sorting of incoming mail into different inboxs should only be done with the help of the mail headers, (note, only one mail adress), example: debian_user_list -> "debian-inbox" fvwm_user_list -> "fvwm-inbox" the rest -> "inbox" This example would afford the creation of 3 inboxes, all read-in by mutt. > > I found this in ../exim/oview.txt: > > " > > There is support for multiple user mailboxes controlled by prefixes or > > suffixes on the user name, either via the filter mechanism or through > > multiple .forward files. > > " > > Does 'this' user name relate to the name I used when > > logging in my debian system? > > It can but doesn't have to. However, this is really _not_ what you > want. What does this part of the exim documentary mean then? Thanks for your help Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
