On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, David wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:57:25PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote: (snip) > > Obviously it can. But you just don't want to use exim _at all_ to > > receive mail on a machine that is not permanently connected to the > > Internet (unless you really know what you're doing). > > Why is this? I'm using it on a dialup account. Perhaps we are talking > about different usages here. What I do is retrieve my mail from my > ISP's mailserver using POP3 with fetchmail. As I said in my previous > post, using Exim for this purpose may be overkill, but AFAICT, it works..
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.) -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
