2010-04-08 05:30:26 +02:00
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Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on Unix-like operating systems.
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It is freely available under the GNU GPL and it aims to be a general
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and flexible mailer with extensive facilities for checking incoming e-mail.
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Exim was orginally written by Philip Hazel for use in the University
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of Cambridge Computing Services e-mail systems.
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Before you can build Exim, you have to create an "exim" user and group:
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# groupadd -g 222 exim
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# useradd -d /var/spool/exim -g exim -s /bin/false -u 222 exim
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The recommended uid/gid is 222, but others are fine if you prefer -
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see http://slackbuilds.org/uid_gid.txt for other recommendations.
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There's no "configure" script; instead Exim is configured by editing a well
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documented Makefile, which is then included during the build process. The
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provided "exim.Makefile" will build an all-purpose Exim daemon with almost
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all of the features that will work on a standard Slackware system.
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Exim can be integrated with other email tools such as Clamav, Spamassassin,
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2011-05-10 21:50:09 +02:00
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Bogofilter, and others available at Slackbuilds.org.
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2010-04-08 05:30:26 +02:00
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WARNING: this package is intended as a drop-in replacement for Sendmail.
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As a result, there are some inevitable filename conflicts between Sendmail
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and Exim. REMOVE SENDMAIL BEFORE INSTALLING THIS PACKAGE!
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