[plug] fetchmail

[Onno Benschop]

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 19:10, smclevie at ozemail.com.au wrote:
> Thanks guys,
> 
> I'm under the impression I run 'fetchmail' to collect mail into
> mailboxes and run 'sendmail' to transfer any mail to the outside
> world.
> 
> Exim is installed but not configured (I press option '5' in the
> installation process)  Do I need this configured?  Do I need exim??

Yes.

You can configure it for local delivery only and AFAIK you'll be able to
receive mail using fetchmail.


> Boxes under Debian on network are all Windows running Eudora.  I
> assume I then reconfigure these Eudora setups to read from and send to
> mailboxes on Debian??

Yup. You'll need to install a POP3 daemon of some kind. (Or you could
use IMAP, but that's a whole other category of hurt:-)


> Am I heading down the right road here?  Or do I install other packages
> than those mentioned?

I mentioned another one :-)
	

> Thanks again,
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
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