On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote: > qmail and fetchmail are MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents), right? > > fetchmail downloads messages from a pop3/imap server and puts them into the > local mail delivery system. (Besides, where do the messages end up and in > what form?)
Correct so far. > Then exim (Mail Delivery Agents) delivers the mail to local users (I > presume in /home/username) after which the MUA (Mail User Agents, like > XFMail or some other marvel). > > So what about sending mail then? Using 'smail' sounds obvious, but how does > the route from MUA to the SMTP server go. qmail, smail, sendmail and exim are *all* MTAs. So is fetchmail, but a special one (it just does POP, APOP, etc. stuff). procmail and deliver are MDAs. Note that the only one of the general MTAs above that needs a MDA is sendmail. The others do local delivery on their own. Confused yet? To send mail from a dialup connection, you need to get your MTA to tell a few white lies. Have a look at the ISP HOWTO which explains how to do this with Sendmail. I've never used Exim, so I can't give any advice there. With sendmail, you can also rewrite outgoing addresses, so instead of sending as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", mail would appear to come from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Look at the sendmail address rewrite mini-HOWTO. Again, Exim might do this too, but I don't know. > I've installed fetchmail and exim, but haven't had time to read the man > pages. Does anybody have a good way to convert man pages into readable > ASCII text, so I can print them out and read them off-line? (The purchasing > of a notebook is still in the pipeline, so printing will have to do for now > :-) You could try the dwww package that makes man pages into web pages--you could print those. ----------- "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea." --RFC-1925
