On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:45:59 +0100, Mike Cardwell <[email protected]> wrote:
>* on the Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 07:25:55PM +0400, Evgeniy Berdnikov wrote: > >>> I need to find a local solution to >>> >>> 1. Send outgoing e-mails through Gmail's SMTP server >>> 2. Download e-mails from my ISP's POP3 server >>> 3. Convert those incoming e-mails from UTF8 to Windows1252 before >>> delivering them to my UTF8-impaired Windows e-mail client. >>> >>> It looks like Exim has no problem acting as a relay SMTP server to >>> reach Google >>> >>> http://islandlinux.org/howto/configure-exim-use-gmail-smtp-server >>> >>> but does it support the other two features? >> >> Briefly NO, because last two features are functions of Mail User Agent >> (MUA), but Exim is Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), it is not constructed >> for mail fetching and charset convertion. > >Yes. You could use fetchmail to grab the mail via pop3 and inject >it into Exim, but then Exim would need to deliver it somewhere, so >you'd need to configure your own pop or imap server as well. And I'm >not aware of any ready made tools to do the character set conversion >you want, although it could probably be scripted if you did it >yourself or paid a programmer to do it. > >Best option would probably be to replace your email client. Thanks much for the infos. I'll check other options before Eudora is pried from my cold, dead hands ;-) -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
