On 15 Oct 2002, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:39:18 +0100 Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > This seems very odd. I thought that Debian set up exim more or less by > > default. > > It does, for _delivery_ of mail provided to it. The OP was looking for a > simple way to deliver and sort mail to local boxes for (presumably) an > account hosted externally. While exim could be invloved in the solution, > it would not be the simpliest solution. As the system is not normally > connected to the net, the MX server for the account in question would > probably be at an ISP (or something else remote). Thus, mail would first > have to be fetched in some way (fetchmail), then passed on to exim, and > finally sorted on delivery (procmail/maildrop). The addition of exim only > increases the complexity of the solution as you can very easily pass the > messages retrieved via fetchmail directly to your filtering/sorting > application (procmail/maildrop). So, why involve exim? Now, exim would > most likely need to be configured to pass messages injected by the MUA > (mutt in the OP's case) off to either the actual end-recipients MX server > or the ISP's SMTP server. > > > How could you send and deliver mail without exim or another MTA? > > As I understood it, this wasn't really the OP's question (see above). > Perhaps that is why your confused with the responses? >
Thanks for the clarification. Anthony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
