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diff --git a/network/exim/README b/network/exim/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..9c57aaadbb2a --- /dev/null +++ b/network/exim/README @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +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. + +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 - +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 almost +all of the features that will work on a standard Slackware system. + +Exim can be integrated with other email tools such as Clamav, Spamassassin, +Bogofilter, and others available at Slackbuilds.org. You might also be +interested in the "exim-html" package, an extensive documentation for Exim. + +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! |