Re: [exim4] mixed up about terminology
On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 10:00:59AM +0100, Joe wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2014 18:35:22 +1300
> Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 07:41:06PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> > > Even fetchmail connects to the MTA on its own host by SMTP.
> >
> > How have you got yours configured? fetchmail connects using the pop3
> > protocol in my configuration.
> >
>
> Yes, and it then passes on the mail to the system MTA using SMTP, by
> default. It doesn't have to, it can also use sockets.
>
> To move the mail to another machine, particularly a non-*nix one, it's
> easiest to stick with SMTP. If you're mixing directly-received email
> with POP-collected email, again SMTP is the simplest interface, all
> incoming email will be processed in the same way.
Have a look at the '-m' option. No MTA needed.
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