On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, davidturetsky wrote:
> I'm just a lowly user trying to download forwarded mail from an ISP where my
> website resides. I am not a host, or if I am, it is surely out of default
> and sheer ignorance
If you have a computer that is connected to the Internet, it is a "host".
That's what the word means.
Most people that download mail that is stored on an ISP's server use POP
or IMAP user agents; it's only those that want more sophisticated
features that run fetchmail and a local MTA. Needless to say, Exim
wasn't designed for this job (though it can do it).
> I am using the latest debian version of exim, not source
>
> For the moment, if exim prefers to do it all, that's good by me too . . . if
> only I knew the changes to make (assuming I have to make such changes) in
> exim.conf and the options to specify on the command line
This would, I think, have been easier if you *hadn't* taken a packaged
version, because you might have learned more of what you need to know by
starting from scratch.
> I look forward to downloading the latest version of exim, source and all,
> but think it would be prudent of me to be up and running first, with a tad
> of experience under my belt
Unfortunately, as the Debian version still seems to be 2.x you will have
to jump another hurdle, as there were incompatible configuration changes
between the 2.x releases and the 3.x releases. The 3.x releases have
been out for well over a year:
-rw-r--r-- 1 ph10 ph10 1069143 May 14 1999 exim-3.00.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ph10 ph10 1070123 May 19 1999 exim-3.01.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ph10 ph10 1071172 Jun 2 1999 exim-3.02.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ph10 ph10 1144759 Aug 2 1999 exim-3.03.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ph10 ph10 1211829 Nov 22 1999 exim-3.10.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ph10 ph10 1216965 Nov 30 1999 exim-3.11.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ph10 ph10 1217147 Dec 8 1999 exim-3.12.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ph10 ph10 1221418 Jan 13 2000 exim-3.13.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ph10 ph10 1186711 Apr 12 10:45 exim-3.14.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ph10 ph10 1191637 Jun 14 08:57 exim-3.15.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 ph10 ph10 1192811 Jul 20 12:08 exim-3.16.tar.gz
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