On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 01:51:47PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > In view of this, is exim the right choice in such a setting? What is the > alternative?
Exim works fine for me. I had used smail before, but everyone here said to use exim. > Setting up mail on debian seems very complicated compared to the usual > process on Windows, where you simply configure a client with a few > parameters. It seems here you have a client and a transport agent to > configure. Yes an no. Netscape, I think, has its own transport agent; it's an MTA and MUA all balled into one. So I would think that if you only use Netscape for mail/news, you wouldn't have to worry about a real MTA. > Retreiving mail uses POP, and there is no > reference to POP in the exim manual as far as I can tell. You'll want fetchmail for getting the POP mail. It's pretty easy to set up. It even has an "easy set-up" setting. Like another poster mentioned, I get a lot of mail from lists. Using exim, fetchmail, procmail and mutt couldn't make me happier. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
