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These will (ideally, assuming we remember when generating tarballs) still be mode 0755 inside the tarballs, but we would prefer to have them mode 0644 on the server. It's probably not really important, but just call us OCD like that. ;-) Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> |
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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!