Re: exim configuration
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I noticed my exim.conf is different than yours. Specifically, after the
> received_header_text part you have:
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> sender_verify = true
> receiver_verify = true
I find that a lot of spam comes through with faked domains - this also
guarantees that I won't get an email that I can't respond to because the
mail domain doesn't exist.
> local_interfaces = 127.0.0.1
This tells exim to bind *only* to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) - any connect
attempts to any other IP address will be futile since there's nothing
there to connect to.
This one and the *_verify lines are purely optional and having them set or
not really shouldn't affect how exim works.
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> What is the purpose of those options?
>
> I also noticed you used the maildir format. What is the most desirable
> format to use with IMAP?
The most desireable format for use with IMAP depends entirely on your
situation - I used maildir because I do a lot of stuff over NFS at home,
and maildir is a good mailbox format to use over NFS.
You can get by perfectly well without maildir - I did for 2 years on
tux.creighton.edu before I switched that to maildir.
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