Date: 24 Dec 2004 11:33:53 +0100 From: peter@bgnett.no (Peter N. M. Hansteen) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: comm/JT <comm@rwx.ca> Subject: Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3 Message-ID: <86wtv8m1da.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> In-Reply-To: <20041223224234.01432DD9A@cmlapp400.van.ca.siteprotect.com> References: <20041223224234.01432DD9A@cmlapp400.van.ca.siteprotect.com>
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"comm/JT" <comm@rwx.ca> writes: > Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to > fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and > seemed to have failed, just wondering if I am using an old and outdated > document. In my experience, it should be pretty straightforward. There are a couple of things which are not done automagically by the port, IIRC - * adding the lines exim_enable="YES" sendmail_enable="NONE" to /etc/rc.conf * editing /etc/mail/mailer.conf to read something like sendmail /usr/local/sbin/exim send-mail /usr/local/sbin/exim mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim -bp newaliases /usr/bin/true hoststat /usr/local/sbin/sendmail purgestat /usr/local/sbin/sendmail * killing the sendmail daemon and starting exim (use /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim.sh start to start exim) There may be a few other things you need to do, but the port tends to remind you of such things along the way. Running the install from a script(1) session is useful too, just in case useful messages scroll off the top of the screen too quickly. The port also supplies nice and straightforward instructions to add spam and virus filtering to the delivery process. Nice for those of us serving Microsoft desktops. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"
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