On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, W B Hacker wrote:
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> Three of the easiest involve little or no modification to Exim itself.
>
> 1) install a webmail service. There are plenty of those around, written in PHP,
> perl, python, ruby, etc. These are handy to have in any case. Pay attention to
> security.
>
> At least two, one in perl, another in python, are full-fledged web-resident
> MUA's - IOW can handle POP/IMAP accounts on servers other than those on which
> they reside as well as the 'local' ones (if any).
>
> One of these even instantiates its own bespoke https webserver, so no need for
> Apache, etc. or interfering with an httpd that is doing web pages (not always a
> good idea on a mail server anyway).
>
> 2) Work from an ssh shell with the Unix/Linux basic mail functions. Not as
> clumsy as it soudns if you have cut 'n paste terminla functionality.
>
> 3) Use a more fully-featured Unix mailer toolset, such as 'pine' or 'mutt'.
> Several folks here do so.
>
> In all of the above cases, you are already 'resident' on the server, so the
> adsl/dialup/<whatever> link is no longer of concern to the MTA and
> 'automagically' disappears.
>
4) Within exim may be the easiest of all:
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.50/doc/html/FAQ.html#TOC286
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