Well, i would be interested i replying to mail that i have fetched. On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 05:44:06PM -0600, dude wrote: > > > I would like to confiugre my EXIM, but even after reading the docs, > > i still dont know what exactly to do. > > > > my set up is that i have an account at csoft.net where i log in to check > > my mail > > Well, that has got nothing to do with exim. Exim is a MTA, it > *delievers* mail and doesn't fetch it. > To fetch mail use fetchmail ;) Configuring fetchmail is pretty > easy. Install it by apt-get (if it not installed already) and create a > file called ~/.fetchmailrc yes, i have seen that one done. thanks for making the clear > > poll your.mail.server proto POP3 user your.user password XXX > > > what configuration would be best when setting up exim? > > If you also want to deliever mail, then you should specify a so called > "smarthost" in your exim.conf - which is your ISP's SMTP-Server. so when exim asks for the host site, i should specify mail.csoft.net(for instance) and have fetchmail configured so i can get mail thanks for your time. g > Phil >
