Re: [Exim] POP-before-SMTP

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Author: Drav Sloan
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To: Alexey Promokhov
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] POP-before-SMTP
Alexey Promokhov wrote:
> HI!
>
> My ISP have a buggy smtp, so I want to use relay of my hosting
> provider as smarthost. But they are require me to authentificate at
> their POP server before relaying. Is there a way to do it with exim?


Not that I've tried, it's an SMTP server and I don't think handles
POP3.

> Or maybe I can run some external program (fetchmail, for example)
> before delivering with smtp transport?


Fetchmail does pop3 and will also do the convertion/insertion of the
mail via SMTP.

HTH :)

D.

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