You can ... If you are debugging this, I would just use straight IP numbers. Otherwise you have to resolve the name. Just make sure you can ping your pop.server.com and smtp.server.com before trying to access them via mail client. This proves propper name resolution. Don't forget to load cucipop or qpopper or some other POP3 server. This is actually the POP3 interface over exim ...
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 6:22 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: simple mail question simple mail question Hey guys, In most email clients, you can specify a pop and a smtp server to connect to, like pop.server.com smtp.server.com can I, armed with exim, specify myself as the sender, and use somthing like smtp.me.whatever ?? thanks! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null