A Simple Configuration of Exim

Oohara Yuuma

oohara@libra.interq.or.jp

This document describes how to configure Exim for local use.


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Revision History
Revision v0.5Fri, 7 Sep 2001Revised by: oohara
Added "Running Exim as a daemon" section.
Revision v0.4Tue, 7 Aug 2001Revised by: oohara
Added fetchmail in section 1, an explanation of "byname" in section 4, and a reference to BTS in section 5.
Revision v0.3Sat, 28 Jul 2001Revised by: oohara
Now this is a part of the Newbiedoc project. Added a new section, "Finding More Info". Divided section 4 into 2 subsections.
Revision v0.2Fri, 27 Jul 2001Revised by: oohara
Fixed broken link. Reduced hand-hacking in section 4.
Revision v0.1Thu, 26 Jul 2001Revised by: oohara
This is the initial draft.

Table of Contents
1. What is Exim?
2. Assumptions
3. Very simple configuration: local only
4. A bit more advanced configuration: relay to the ISP's SMTP server
4.1. First step
4.2. Tweaking configuration files
5. Running Exim as a daemon
6. Finding more info