On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Griffith Feeney wrote:
> I'm in the process of setting up exim/fetchmail/procmail/mutt on Debian > 2.2. I've used eximconfig option 2, for which outgoing mail is sent via a > "smarthost" and incoming mail is picked up from one or more POP servers. > > Getting incoming mail from POP servers makes sense, since I'm only > intermittantly connected, but why not have exim send mail directly? What is > gained or saved by going through the "smarthost"? > > If it makes sense to do so, how to configure exim to send outgoing mail > directly but not accept incoming mail? I've spent several hours going > through the exim docs without finding answers to these questions. > > > I just pick option (1) which allows you to send mail directly without necessarily having a daemon listening. Needless to say you have to be connected to send mail. -walter