Re: New exim setup (and exim 4?)
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 16:23, Bill Moseley wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org
for a start you could take a look at
http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/exim4_spamassassin.html
and ofcourse the man pages:) and probably localhost/doc/exim.
--
Mvh
Ernst-Magne Vindal
ernst@vindal.com
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