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

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Author: Gilles
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim to convert UTF8 to Windows1252 + act as POP3 server?
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:45:59 +0100, Mike Cardwell
<exim-users@???> wrote:

>* on the Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 07:25:55PM +0400, Evgeniy Berdnikov 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.
>
>Yes. You could use fetchmail to grab the mail via pop3 and inject
>it into Exim, but then Exim would need to deliver it somewhere, so
>you'd need to configure your own pop or imap server as well. And I'm
>not aware of any ready made tools to do the character set conversion
>you want, although it could probably be scripted if you did it
>yourself or paid a programmer to do it.
>
>Best option would probably be to replace your email client.


Thanks much for the infos.

I'll check other options before Eudora is pried from my cold, dead
hands ;-)