Bug#394438: received via SMTP or fetchmail

[Olaf van der Spek]

Marc Haber wrote:
> 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.

Of course exim can. But that answer makes it sound like it'll configure 
that for you. Just mentioning localhost in the answer would probably 
make this clear.

> 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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