Griffith Feeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm in the process of setting up exim/fetchmail/procmail/mutt on Debian >2.2. I've used eximconfig option 2, for which outgoing mail is sent via a >"smarthost" and incoming mail is picked up from one or more POP servers. > >Getting incoming mail from POP servers makes sense, since I'm only >intermittantly connected, but why not have exim send mail directly? What is >gained or saved by going through the "smarthost"?
Apart from the other reasons mentioned already, a lot of people reject mail coming from known dial-up IP addresses, since it's a technique often used by spammers. Thus using your ISP's smarthost generally increases the likelihood of your mail being delivered. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]