Re: [Exim] exim capable of sorting incoming mail?

Steve Haslam wrote:
>
>
> > The -oMr option in your command is not clear to me:
> > "... The option is
> >       intended for use when handing to Exim messages received by
> > other means.
> >       It applies only to non-SMTP and batched SMTP input.
> > "
> > - What does this mean?
>
> The "received protocol" is an attribute of each message in
> exim's queue. If you wubmit a message to Exim via the
> command-line interface, then by deafult
> the received protocol is "local". But trusted users can
> override this too using -oMr. So in this case, I override
> the received protocol to "fetchmail", which shows up the
> Recevied: headers, and also means that I
> scan the messages with SpamAssassin (which I don';t do for
> messages received using "local").


Steve - could you please help me on your last explaination:

What is 'batched SMPT'?
In any case, following your explaination, the mail you input to exim
via command line is by default marked as 'local'. Then SpamAssassin
knows not to scan these messages - why do you want then to override the
'local' attribute by using the -oMr option?

Reviewing your command in fetchmailrc was:
mda "/usr/sbin/exim -oMr fetchmail -oem -f %F %T"


Please excuse this additional non-exim question:
As MTA's get input by SMPT, what does PPP do?
Does PPP only establish a remote connection and then
passes the the work to the awaiting protocols
like SMPT, SOAP etc or do these two and other protocols
work on top of ppp?

Robert