Moving My Windows Mail Server To Exim

[Steve Holmes]

Exim pretty much drops in as a replacement for sendmail.  It processes
outgoing mail from your machine to everywhere else.  It also takes in
incoming mail received over TCP/IP port 25 from other sources - note
that fetchmail will dump off to smtp port 25 so exim handles that
too.  As for end users to receive mail locally, you would add shell
accounts for them.  Now you have been talking about setting up mailing
lists; I would watch mailman's documentation and hopefully it tells
you how to set up user accounts for the lists.  That's where the
/etc/aliases comes in.  I recall from a long time ago when I ran a
mail list from home here using smartlist and I had to set up a basic
account on my machine called lists and then smartlist set aliaseses to
point to that "dummy user" account.  I would think mailman would do
something similar but with much greater power.

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:34:07AM -0400, Rejean Proulx wrote:
> I'm going to move my mail server and mailing lists from Windows.  Kirk tells
> me to use Exim which is probably as correct as you'll ever get.  I read
> about exim and it doesn't say anything about setting up accounts.  Does it
> use shell accounts?  If not, how do I set up e-mail addresses.  It talks
> about SMTP servers.  I assume it has pop support in order to receive mail.
> I wish Linux had more documentation for dummies.  I know these questions
> might be obvious, but you can't assume answers.  I want to leave my mail
> server down for as short as possible, and I know I'll run into problems.
> Just trying to anticipate them.
> 
>  Rejean Proulx
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