Doug, Could you give some commands as examples of sending emails with exim4, please?
Thanks a lot On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <dtu...@vianet.ca> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:10:17PM +0100, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > > > > I'm trying to figure out how to use exim4 for sending/receiving mails in > > console mode. > > Any recommendation for good instructions/how-tos ? > > I think that the only way to dirctly tell exim4 to send mail is to speak > SMTP to it, since it is a Mail Transfer Agent. Most people use a Mail > User Agent to talk to it, e.g. mutt. Receiving mail, for most people, > is done with a mail fetcher, e.g. fetchmail, that pulls the mail from a > POP or IMAP server, hands it off to your local exim4 MTA, which puts it > in your mailbox. You then read the mail with your MUA, e.g. mutt. > > Doug. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > >
