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diff --git a/network/exim/README b/network/exim/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..70321898b0b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/network/exim/README @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +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 has no configure but requires the exim.Makefile. This file is included +with the makefile. The exim.Makefile has some of the more important attributes +enabled such as Content scanning, Database integration ((only Mysql), extra +security facilities (such as TCPWRAPPERS) and more. + +Also "eximon" (the configuration for this is eximon.Makefile) and has been +included which a nice and simple monitoring tool for X and hence can be used +from any console to monitor your MTA. Please read through both files +and mofidy them as you see fit. + +All documentation for exim is included in /usr/doc/exim-*. Another good +source for documentation can be found at http://www.exim-new-users.co.uk/. + +To fully integrate Exim with the rest of your system you would have to create +symlinks for sendmail to point to the exim binary. Please *NOTE* that this +might break sendmail from working. If you ever remove exim, you might need to +reinstall Sendmail. + +Finally Exim can be integrated with other email tools such as Clamav, +Spamassassin, Bogofilter and others, which are available at Slackbuilds.org. + |