From ffd97168269b59ebcd2b1697cbeedc8fa1329cec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Morper Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 22:30:26 -0500 Subject: network/exim: Added. exim is a sendmail replacement. --- network/exim/README | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 network/exim/README (limited to 'network/exim/README') diff --git a/network/exim/README b/network/exim/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9c57aaadbb --- /dev/null +++ b/network/exim/README @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on Unix-like operating systems. +It is freely available under the GNU GPL and it aims to be a general +and flexible mailer with extensive facilities for checking incoming e-mail. + +Exim was orginally written by Philip Hazel for use in the University +of Cambridge Computing Services e-mail systems. + +Before you can build Exim, you have to create an "exim" user and group: + # groupadd -g 222 exim + # useradd -d /var/spool/exim -g exim -s /bin/false -u 222 exim +The recommended uid/gid is 222, but others are fine if you prefer - +see http://slackbuilds.org/uid_gid.txt for other recommendations. + +There's no "configure" script; instead Exim is configured by editing a well +documented Makefile, which is then included during the build process. The +provided "exim.Makefile" will build an all-purpose Exim daemon with almost +all of the features that will work on a standard Slackware system. + +Exim can be integrated with other email tools such as Clamav, Spamassassin, +Bogofilter, and others available at Slackbuilds.org. You might also be +interested in the "exim-html" package, an extensive documentation for Exim. + +WARNING: this package is intended as a drop-in replacement for Sendmail. +As a result, there are some inevitable filename conflicts between Sendmail +and Exim. REMOVE SENDMAIL BEFORE INSTALLING THIS PACKAGE! -- cgit v1.2.3