New exim setup (and exim 4?)
I'm moving from a sendmail mail server to a Woody based exim setup.
I am an Exim beginner, so I'm trying to get prepared for the move. Any
tips or pointers to HOWTOs would be appreciated.
Should I stick with Exim 3 or would it be wise to start with Exim 4?
(I see exim4 is in experimental now.)
Do you have a favorite HOWTO for setting up Exim with virtual hosts
(multiple hosted domains)? I'm only planning on hosting a small number of
domains.
My current sendmail setup does a number of things I'd like to keep. I
looking for examples how to do these things with Exim:
- I use procmail to add an X-Envelope-To: to every incoming message. Can
Exim do this for me? I still want procmail as the local delivery (which
exim does).
- Some virtual hosts deliver all mail to a single local user except a few
specific address (e.g. foo@example.com is delivered to local user foo,
bar@example.com gets forwarded to an external address, but all other
addresses go to local user baz by default).
- I have other virtual hosts where a bunch of defined addresses get
aliased to other addresses, but if foo@ is not aliased then it gets
bounced.
- And I have one domain where all mail is delivered to one user. That
user uses procmail to alias to other accounts (their alias list is updated
often). Their procmail script uses the X-Envelope-To: header to determine
where to forward each message.
One change will be to deliver to maildir instead of mbox, so I can setup
IMAP. I need to review the recent thread on "Building an IMAP server" to
see which one to install (Cyrus or Courier-imap).
My current plan is to not allow any remote imap connections, but maybe ssl
based webmail.
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Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org
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