On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 07:38:38PM -0500, Debian User wrote:
> Can someone explain what's the relation between exim, fetchmail
> and mutt or any other reader? If fetchmail fetches it, then why
> the servers have to be defined again for exim or mutt?
"mail call for everyone"
EXIM, on your own email distribution monster (like mine,
serving an army of one), receives incoming email if you're
set up to get email directly, and distributes those messages
based on its settings, to other servers or to local users.
even if you're NOT your own mail hub, and you use ISP email
boxes cross the street or hotmail boxes around the world,
when you send email out, you might as well have your own
system start the mail on its appointed rounds; you can use
'localhost' as your outgoing smtp server, and it'll be on
its way in a jiffy once EXIM is set up properly.
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"go get *MY* email"
FETCHMAIL will download email waiting for YOU
at YOUR pop or imap email server.
"organize *MY* email"
PROCMAIL will, based on patterns you specify, separate and
distribute YOUR personal incoming email into various
folders, or bounce them, or forward them, or auto-respond to
them, or otherwise spindle and mutilate them at your whim.
"what'd *I* get?"
MUTT shows YOU, the user, YOUR email.
--
so microso~1 outlook is a combo of fetchmail and procmail and
mutt. exim is a whole 'nother ball of wax.
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