Re: [Exim] Relay

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Author: John Burnham
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To: rmichell, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Relay
Ricardo J. Michell wrote:
> I see it now, yes it is an email sent to a local user.
>
> Why if it is an incoming mail to my pop3 server is exim dealing with
> it. I though exim was only an SMTP server and it doesn't have to do
> anything with incoming traffic (POP3).
>

Umm. No. Mail is sent by SMTP - mail will come in to your box by SMTP.
POP is a protocol for users to pick up email from a server (like
IMAP). I would advise you find a nice tutorial on such things.
http://www.sendmail.org/email-explained.html is a good start.
John