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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!