On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:48:09PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > You can setup mutt on machine M and have it just pull messages directly > from machine P via POP.
Two factors against that. - P belongs to an ISP which refuses POP access from a machine not on his WAN. - M is inside a firewall which passes ssh but not POP. > I think that exim is not necessary for your needs. fetchmail sends messages to port 25 via SMTP whereas mutt wants to read messages in /var/mail/peter. Isn't exim needed to send the port 25 stream into the spool file? > As I said, exim is probably overkill. Messages need to be sent also. Isn't exim needed to send messages to P via SMTP? Thanks again, ... Peter E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]