After configuring exim by running eximconfig, you have to create a file called .fetchmailrc in your home directory. If you want to fetch mail from say postoffice.X.edu where your username is username your .fetchmailrc file would have
set postmaster "username" poll postoffice.X.edu with proto POP3 user "username" mda "/usr/sbin/sendmail" -oem $USER" /use/sbin/sendmail is a link to exim. On my Linux machine I have an account under "username" so that the fetched mail is put in the right place; this is the purpose of set postmaster "username" When I start my machine in the morning I type fetchmail -d 600 to run it as a daemon, fetching mail every 10 min. It will ask for your password at this time. I hope this helps. Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio NOrthern University Ada, OH 45810 > Hi, > Could someone point me to documentation for exim and fetchmail which is > easier to understand than the "man" files. As I understand, exim is a local > mail agent which uses SMTP? to send mail around the localnetwork. Fetchmail > delivers remote mail, POP3 in my case, to this local network and the users > on it. However, I don't fully understand how it all works yet and my attempt > to get either exim or fetchmail working don't seem to bear any success. > > Thanks in advance > Richard > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
