Re: [exim] Exim to convert UTF8 to Windows1252 + act as POP3…

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Author: Evgeniy Berdnikov
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim to convert UTF8 to Windows1252 + act as POP3 server?
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 04:37:49PM +0200, Gilles wrote:
>
> I need to find a local solution to
>
> 1. Send outgoing e-mails through Gmail's SMTP server
> 2. Download e-mails from my ISP's POP3 server
> 3. Convert those incoming e-mails from UTF8 to Windows1252 before
> delivering them to my UTF8-impaired Windows e-mail client.
>
> It looks like Exim has no problem acting as a relay SMTP server to
> reach Google
>
> http://islandlinux.org/howto/configure-exim-use-gmail-smtp-server
>
> but does it support the other two features?


Briefly NO, because last two features are functions of Mail User Agent
(MUA), but Exim is Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), it is not constructed
for mail fetching and charset convertion.
--
Eugene Berdnikov