hi steve,
Never heard of exim being used as a pop-client ;)
what's with the winks?
Subtle hint that Exim is an SMTP server. Full stop.
clear. that's why i'm asking abt third-party apps providing functionality that
exim, as an SMTP server, does not.
Not a bloatware SMTP/POP/IMAP/Kitchen sink "mail solution" that is offered
elsewhere.
understood. to borrow your metaphor -- i'm, of course, building my OWN kitchen
sink, and just wanted to know which faucet fixture to use ...
What you're asking for is a way to retrieve
mail from a POP server an inject it into your local mail server.
yup.
The fact the
local mail server happens to be Exim is superfulous.
well, 'kinda sorta' ... i think
this thread began as a result of my understanding -- or MISunderstanding, hence
this question -- of the exim wiki's comments abt 'fetchmail'
(<http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/FAQ/Fetchmail/Q1202>), and the implication that
exim-filtering of mail receieved thru / retrieved by fetchmail is not the 'best
way to do things' ...
As for my recommendation I say get an email client that actually
understands multiple POP or IMAP connections and be done with it. Never
understood the fetish people have for mashing all their mail streams together
so as to make it five times the work to keep things separate in the end.
not a fetish at all. simply i'd rather all streams are routed thru / filtered
by MY kitchen sink, rather than depending on someone else's not leaking ...
richard
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