Re: configuring fetchmail, exim and mutt for remote access

On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 01:20:06PM -0800, Peter Easthope wrote:
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:48:09PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
You can setup mutt on machine M and have it just pull messages directly
from machine P via POP.

Two factors against that.
- P belongs to an ISP which refuses POP access from
a machine not on his WAN.

Uggh.

- M is inside a firewall which passes ssh but not POP.

I see. Do you have ssh access to P? Were you planning on tunneling?
If so, you can have fetchmail go over the tunnel. Alternatively, does
the machine have IMAP access?

I think that exim is not necessary for your needs.

fetchmail sends messages to port 25 via SMTP whereas
mutt wants to read messages in /var/mail/peter.
Isn't exim needed to send the port 25 stream into
the spool file?

I don't think so. I think fetchmail can be configured to deliver
directly. If not, seting up for local delivery in exim is a simple
dpkg-reconfigure away.

As I said, exim is probably overkill.

Messages need to be sent also. Isn't exim needed
to send messages to P via SMTP?

Possibly. You can use ssmtp. For exim, however, you will need to wait
for someone else on the list to help you out. I don't know a thing
about it, as I use postfix on all my machines.

Thanks again, ... Peter E.

np,

Regards,

-Roberto

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