hi steve,
>>> Never heard of exim being used as a pop-client ;)
>> what's with the winks?
>
> Subtle hint that Exim is an SMTP server. Full stop.
clear. that's why i'm asking abt third-party apps providing functionality that
exim, as an SMTP server, does not.
> Not a bloatware SMTP/POP/IMAP/Kitchen sink "mail solution" that is offered
elsewhere.
understood. to borrow your metaphor -- i'm, of course, building my OWN kitchen
sink, and just wanted to know which faucet fixture to use ...
> What you're asking for is a way to retrieve
> mail from a POP server an inject it into your local mail server.
yup.
> The fact the
> local mail server happens to be Exim is superfulous.
well, 'kinda sorta' ... i think
this thread began as a result of my understanding -- or MISunderstanding, hence
this question -- of the exim wiki's comments abt 'fetchmail'
(<
http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/FAQ/Fetchmail/Q1202>), and the implication that
exim-filtering of mail receieved thru / retrieved by fetchmail is not the 'best
way to do things' ...
> As for my recommendation I say get an email client that actually
> understands multiple POP or IMAP connections and be done with it. Never
> understood the fetish people have for mashing all their mail streams together
> so as to make it five times the work to keep things separate in the end.
not a fetish at all. simply i'd rather all streams are routed thru / filtered
by MY kitchen sink, rather than depending on someone else's not leaking ...
richard
