Re: Exim (was Re: Qmail)
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, John Goerzen wrote:
> Whoa...back up a little bit there... :-)
<Screech> Whirrrr.... :-)
> I am currently using Sendmail (and its /etc/aliases format). I don't know if
> Smail uses a compatible format, but in any case, I have no smailconfig file or
> program anywhere on my system, so I really don't know what that program does
> :-)
It is run by smail's postinst script to set up appropriate configuration
files. Exim's postinst script does similar things.
> Basically all I'm concerned about here is being able to use my existing config
> file from sendmail with Exim.
As well as debian, I also run Exim on a largeish IRIX system (1386 users,
handling around 50,000 messages a week - admittedly not very much). The
machine has a fairly sophisticated aliases file from old sendmail days,
and I did not need to make any changes whatsoever.
I don't believe anyone has pointed out that exim also includes a rather
nice 'eximstats' perl script (and other miscellaneous scripts) for
presenting you with statistics generated from the log file. As a small
example from my SGI box:
Exim statistics from 1996-10-06 00:03:11 to 1996-10-13 00:01:52
TOTAL Volume Messages Hosts
Received 170Mb 22251 1754
Delivered 187Mb 25993 1394
Deliveries by transport
Volume Messages
address_file 4144 3
address_pipe 2867Kb 550
local_delivery 114Mb 17250
smtp 70Mb 8190
Top 50 senders by message count
5595 63925306 local
601 3365598 listserv.rl.ac.uk
522 2464337 mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk
488 4810728 lilac.csi.cam.ac.uk
479 1308204 mserv1.dl.ac.uk
451 872307 ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk
385 798002 taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk
270 6895139 eldorado.bids.ac.uk
269 701102 berk.mail.netforce.net
245 480027 bioc.cam.ac.uk
etc etc
Tim.
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