[exim] EXIM as MTA and MDA

Exim4, actually, is configurated to use smarthost (my ISP) to relay incoming fax to an email address.
I have now some XP clients (internal lan, local static ip address) who need to be able to send and receive  mail through my server with Outlook use only one specific mail address.

I read Exim4 can receive mail from a remote host using SMTP over
TCP/IP.

So I don't need to install POP-IMAP programs such as Courier, Fetchmail. Right ?

Can anyone tell me more about this question.

Hello to all

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* on the Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 01:55:34PM -0400, jean-paul natola wrote:

> i Definatley would need config assistance,
>
> it took about a week to learn bsd exim sa and clam to get this working- initially and I had help from a very good firned and admin who pretty much gave me sample config and said replace your_domain name here-

Have you actually tried to set it up as I described yet? Many of the
people on this list would suggest that you should learn how to
configure your mail server to at least a basic level your self if
you're going to be running one on the Internet.

> is there a way to just have exim discard the bounce rather than backscatter it, - after all its all pretty much spam anyway- is this a good idea?

That's seen as bad practice because nobody is notified if a legitimate
message is blocked. If you just reject the incoming message in Exim
then at least the sender will know it didn't arrive.

Accept then bounce - bad
Accept then discard - bad
Reject - good

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