Re: [Exim] Moving RH5.2 from sendmail to exim

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Author: Patrick Kirk
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To: Nigel Metheringham
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Moving RH5.2 from sendmail to exim
If eximconfig isn't available, how does one normally set up exim? Is
editing exim.conf the way? As I recall, its not that long and most of the
options make sense in layman terms.

Patrick


----- Original Message -----
From: Nigel Metheringham <Nigel.Metheringham@???>
To: Patrick Kirk <patrick@???>
Cc: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Moving RH5.2 from sendmail to exim


> > 1. Killall sendmail
>
> flush the sendmail queues - ie if mailq is not empty then
> try and force the mails off.
>
> you then need to delete sendmail since the rpms should conflict - they
> both should provide the pathname /usr/sbin/sendmail for example. If
> you don't delete sendmail first then either rpm will not install exim,
> or the delete of sendmail might damage the sendmail install
>
> > 4. rpm -r sendmail
>
> then
>
> > 2. rpm -Uvh exim-3.03-1.i386.rpm
> > 3. rpm -Uvh exim-mon-3.03-1.386.rpm
>
> in general eximconfig isn't on RH rpms, but depends on the pakcager, so
> this
> > 5. run eximconfig or is this a Debian thing only?
>
> might not work....
>
> Nigel.
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