Re: [exim] pipe2imap.pl

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Author: Graeme Fowler
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To: exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] pipe2imap.pl
On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 05:24 +0800, W B Hacker wrote:
> I'm confused.


I'm holding my tongue ;-)

> The above AND the .pl script on your blog show no signs of making an
> off-box connection. They appear to be operating 'cross-box' - i.e. on
> the local file system.
>
> What have I missed?


--host ip.address       : Defaults to 127.0.0.1
--port port             : Defaults to 143 or 993 depending on ssl/tls


So the script can connect to localhost (which it does by default) or can
connect to a remote server. The *script* itself lives locally, but the
IMAP server need not.

Graeme