Exim4

Stephen Lee splee at PLEXIO.COM
Mon Apr 14 01:44:31 IST 2003


On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 17:22, Tony Finch wrote:
> Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
> >At 22:04 12/04/2003, you wrote:
> >>I'm thinking of trying out Exim4 with MS. In addition to the MS install
> >>guide using the Exim/MS combo, is there anything else I need to be aware
> >>of when using Exim4 with MS? I did find some help at:
> >
> >I've run it without any problems. You need to adapt the Exim 3 notes a bit
> >for 4, as the sections in the exim.conf file are called rather different
> >things. If you get really stuck, drop me a line and I'll mail you my
> >(admittedly very simple) exim.conf and exim_send.conf.
>
> Or you can try my setup which uses only one Exim configuration file. The
> standard two-file setup means that all email is scanned (including email
> generated on the local machine) but my setup only scans email submitted
> via SMTP. This should be fine unless you have users on the machine.
> Given a working Exim setup you only need to add two lines to the config
> and change the way you start Exim in order to get it working with
> MailScanner.
>
> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi-bin/faq?file=79
>
> If you have any questions I'm happy to expand on that description
> (I haven't had any feedback on it yet).

Thanks Tony and Julian for your input. It doesn't look like I should
have any issues with Exim 4/MS. Now I just have to figure out how Exim 4
works and convert my exim.conf files. Not looking forward to converting
the Mailman entries...

Stephen



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