-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 11:55:52AM -0700, Jatin Golani wrote:
> mail system of Linux. I have exim on my Debian system > and use Pine > to access my POP3 mail account at my ISP. Now Pine is > supposed to be a MUA and exim a MTA....so > theoretically exim should be handling the job of > receiving my mails..accessing POP3/SMTP right???? I > tried renaming the exim binary rendering it useless > (since i had a doubt)...and the mail binary doesn't > work too.... Exim is not what needs to talk to POP. POP3 allows individual users to access their email on remote systems. That means that each individual user can configure and use a POP3 client. Pine has built in POP3 functionality, but you really should look at fetchmail as a better alternative. Here's a general description of how you should set things up: Exim handles SMTP. It will deliver locally generated messages to remote systems and will accept messages from remote or local systems destined for users on the local system. Fetchmail will be your POP3 client. Configure it to access your email account at your ISP and download all your email. Have it pass the messages off to Exim for local delivery. This will cause all your mail to be delivered on your system just as if your system was the mail server. Then you can use Pine or any other mailer to read your email. Another thing you'll want to do is configure Exim for outgoing address re-writing. It's not too hard, and I believe that the default exim.conf has a template for doing just that. It allows you ensure that all outgoing mail has the correct address in the From field, regardless of what your user name or hostname is on your home machine. Without that, your outbound mail would have something like From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] when in reality you want it to be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something. > but Pine still functions.....also my exim.conf is > configured not for remote deliveries.....could anyone > please explain exim to me and this behaviour....have > read the man pages, docs and the website but still > amnot clear on it.Thanks There is a tool called eximconfig which you should run as root. It will ask you some questions about what type of mail set up you want. You'll probably want the choice that offers you a smarthost, which should be set to your ISPs SMTP server. You won't be relaying mail for any domains or anything like that. You'll need to make a small change to your exim.conf file to turn on address rewriting, but otherwise just stick with the stuff that's generated by the config utility. HTH. Post again with any questions. noah _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE54icnYrVLjBFATsMRAsBzAJ9fh5XRuaTzaS/7U1364ld6JPWhSwCdHDPP UUEYXFryFEtpCtugL+lNyQU= =MHma -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
