Mutt question

[Charles Hallenbeck]

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There are a couple of non-obvious things that make living with exim4 a little easier.

First of all, there are only two files you may ever need to edit in the /etc/exim4 directory. One of them is 
"update-exim4.conf.conf, and the other is passwd.client.

If you edit the first one, there are two commands you must then run in order for the changes to take effect. The first 
is:

update-exim4.conf

and the other is:

invoke-rc.d exim4 restart

The first one will tell you about any errors you may have made, and the second one actually restarts the exim4 daemon to 
utilize your new configuration.

The file /etc/exim4/passwd.client is where you can enter any authentication information that may be needed when you have 
asked exim4 to send all your mail to a smarthost that may require you to authenticate with a password. 

Then there are maybe three other system-wide files you should know about. One is "/etc/mailname" in which you place the 
domain name you would like to use. In my case, it contains hhs48.com on the one and only line in the file. 

The second system-wide file is "/etc/email-addresses" which is where you may have a line for each user on your system, 
giving the complete email address you would like to use when that user sends mail.

The third system-wide file is "/etc/aliases" where you can intercept incoming mail addressed to one user and redirect 
it to wherever you want. That is where such names as admin, postmaster, webmaster, info, etc., may all be redirected to 
root, or to another user. 

Hope this helps.

Chuck

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