Bug#394438: received via SMTP or fetchmail

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 09:18:34PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Marc Haber wrote:
> >On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 11:15:41AM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> >>>mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail
> >>Maybe a more detailed explanation should be given for that question.
> >>If you only listen on localhost:smtp, receiving email is going to be a 
> >>bit hard.
> >
> >This is perfectly reasonable for receiving via fetchmail.
> 
> True, but the or doesn't make that clear. Something like 'received via 
> SMTP combined with fetchmail' would be more clear.
> In the original sentence, it sounds like SMTP can be used on it's own.

It can. Just configure exim to listen on a publicly reachable interface.

If you are qualified for running a publicly reachable SMTP server on
the Internet, you should be able to figure that out by yourself.

Greeetings
Marc

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