On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 11:57:02PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > John Griffiths wrote: > > >At 11:17 PM 12/18/02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > > > > >>What do I need to do to get exim to get mail from my ISP? Or at least > >>where is the best document or tutorial to read to answer my own questions? > >> > >> > >exim doesn't fetch mail > > > >fetchmail fetches mail. > > > Thanks. So that's why I had such a hard time answering my question. :( > I knew that fetchmail fetched mail but I didn't realize that exim > didn't. I've really been wanting to try fetchmail anyway. > > >from the sound of it you don't really need exim (or any MTA) at all, but > >you might want to have it configured to forward mail to your ISP - up to > >you. > > > That might be after I sort out some other parts but from your comments > it looks like I don't need exim. OTOH when I tried 'apt-get remove > exim' apt-get wanted to remove mutt also. > > >if you're going to be sending all your mail from mozilla mail it might not > >be worth worrying about. > > > I have been happy with Mozilla Mail for a long time but I have been > wanting to learn how to use mutt and fetchmail, etc. for some time as well. > > >if you want to use mutt then go with option 3 for a satellite system from > >eximconfig > >and set your aliases the way you need them > > > It was the wording of option 1 that made me think it would fetch my mail > even though it didn't ask me how to get to my ISP. > > >fetchmail to get the mail, procmail to sort it, mozilla or mutt to display > >it, > >you're all set. > > > That sounds great. Thanks. > > Any ideas why I can't apt-get remove exim without removing mutt?
If you were to remove exim, mutt would not be able to meet its dependency requirement for a mail transport agent. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
