Exim4

[Desai, Jason]

What about setting

SPOOL = /var/spool/exim.in

in exim.conf, and then have your second exim process called with

-DSPOOL=/var/spool/exim

This way, you could still use only one config file, and have mail generated
by the server scanned too.  Would this work?

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 6:27 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Exim4
>
>
> Tony,
>
> A little request: any chance you might have time to update the Exim
> installation instructions for Exim 4 please?
>
> I would like to keep it as 2 conf files for Exim rather than
> your setup
> using only 1, as scanning mail generated on the server is
> quite important
> for a lot of MailScanner users out there.
>
> Thanks!
>
> At 01:22 14/04/2003, you 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).
> >
> >Tony.
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