Quoth Philip Hazel on Wed, Jan 13, 1999:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Adam Bentley wrote:
> > 5. I assume I can use my existing alias files and forward files as well as
> > procmail and effectively drop in exim in place of sendmail ?
>
> Yes, as long as your alias/forward files don't assume that pipes are
> going to run under a shell. If the do, you either have to change them,
> or configure Exim to use a shell (which it doesn't by default).
Hint hint:
check that no user has an address of the form "\self@???"
in his .forward file. If they do, ask them to change it to
"\self" (for backward compatibility with Sendmail) or even
"self".
> > 6. I have lots of majordomo lists set-up in the alias file. I take it
> > these will integrate fairly easily into the exim world?
>
> Lots of people are using Majordomo with Exim. There's a web page
> covering this at
>
> http://www.netmaster.ca/exim/majordomo.html
When I was hacking our 1000-line /etc/aliases file for Exim, I
just copied the majordomo lists as is. It worked.
Vadik.
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