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authorThomas Morper <thomas@beingboiled.info>2012-06-30 12:07:31 -0400
committerdsomero <xgizzmo@slackbuilds.org>2012-06-30 12:07:31 -0400
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network/exim: Updated for version 4.80.
Signed-off-by: dsomero <xgizzmo@slackbuilds.org>
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-Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on Unix-like operating systems.
-It is freely available under the GNU GPL and it aims to be a general
+Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on Unix-like operating systems.
+It is freely available under the GNU GPL and it aims to be a general
and flexible mailer with extensive facilities for checking incoming e-mail.
-Exim was orginally written by Philip Hazel for use in the University
-of Cambridge Computing Services e-mail systems.
+Exim was orginally written by Philip Hazel for use in the University
+of Cambridge Computing Services e-mail systems.
Before you can build Exim, you have to create an "exim" user and group:
# groupadd -g 222 exim
# useradd -d /var/spool/exim -g exim -s /bin/false -u 222 exim
-The recommended uid/gid is 222, but others are fine if you prefer -
+The recommended uid/gid is 222, but others are fine if you prefer -
see http://slackbuilds.org/uid_gid.txt for other recommendations.
There's no "configure" script; instead Exim is configured by editing a well
documented Makefile, which is then included during the build process. The
provided "exim.Makefile" will build an all-purpose Exim daemon with the
most common features. The various database lookup methods will not be
-built by default but can be enabled easily by uncommenting a few lines in
-the Makefile.
+built by default but can be enabled easily on the command line or by
+editing a few lines in the Makefile.
Exim can be integrated with other email tools such as Clamav, Spamassassin,
Bogofilter, and others available at Slackbuilds.org.
@@ -26,3 +26,11 @@ Bogofilter, and others available at Slackbuilds.org.
WARNING: this package is intended as a drop-in replacement for Sendmail.
As a result, there are some inevitable filename conflicts between Sendmail
and Exim. REMOVE SENDMAIL BEFORE INSTALLING THIS PACKAGE!
+
+The SQL- and LDAP-lookups will not be built by default,
+but you can enable them easily by passing the directives
+on the command line when calling this script, e.g.
+
+ LOOKUP_LDAP=yes LOOKUP_SQLITE=yes \
+ LOOKUP_MYSQL=yes LOOKUP_POSTGRES=yes \
+ sh exim.SlackBuild