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>What is the best "pain free" way to switch from sendmail to exim????
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Here's how I did it:
(1) I built exim, and tested mail sending and local delivery.
(2) I started exim listening on an alternative port and tested SMTP
mail via a telnet session.
(3) I made a copy of /usr/lib/sendmail and it's other places (actually
I think it was /usr/sbin/sendmail on this system, with a symlink to
the former location).
(4) I started sendmail without the -bd option, so that it could run
out its queue.
(5) I moved exim to /usr/lib/sendmail etc and started it with the -bd
option, so that it did mail listening. I also had to tweak 'mailq'
so that it pointed to exim rather than sendmail.
(6) when sendmail's queue was empty, I killed the process.
(7) note that OS maintenance may want to overwrite exim with the
vendor's sendmail or whatever they ship.
This is probably a little over-simplified, but you get the idea.
Doug
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