On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 01:21:45PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > can I, armed with exim, specify myself as the sender, and use somthing like
The typical setup would be to have exim as your mail transport agent. So, you would specify "localhost" as your smtp sender. You would then configure exim to deliver non-local mail through your ISP. Check the eximconfig script, it sets up most of what you'll want. For receiving mail, people typically use fetchmail, possibly in conjunction with procmail. A problem you may encounter is software such as Netscape Mail or StarOffice work fine for sending mail, but AFAIK you can't get them to read mail from MH style "inboxes" (/var/mail/$USER). Perhaps procmail can put incoming mail into the inboxes those programs use in a style they like. If you just use Netscape, you needn't worry about configuring exim to deliver non-local mail, and can skip using fetchmail/procmail. However, the combination works quite nicely once you get it set-up. There are some programs that can use both local incoming mail boxes, and poll IMAP or POP servers. It kind of depends on what you want to do, for what you'll use... -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/egm2.gpg | +----------------------------------------------------+