On Wed, 17 May 2000, Richard wrote:
> Hello
>
> For some months now quite a few people I know of who use SuSE every
> day of the week have been trying to work out how to get exim to work
> with their machines. Both Nigel and Philip have tried to help me but
> we can't understand what to do.
Given the remarks below I find this odd. Or do you mean because *you*,
excluding Nigel and Philip, can't understand...? They know exim inside
out....
>
> Can some one help me out with this ? There are hundreds of people out
> there who would like to use Exim but can't because there's no info
There is a lot of excellent documentation on Exim. It is very well
written and continually improved. It takes some work to understand at
first because of the novel approach in exim's design, but is worth the
effort, because the design is elegant. It is available by ftp as text,
PostScript and HTML, and is on the web.
> available. To start with the rpms are no good. They only work with
> Red Hat and even when I tried that I couldn't get it to work with Red
From what I see on the list the RPMs are not updated *very* often anyway.
I will stand corrected as necessary. :-)
> Hat. So that leaves the tar.gz source file. Apparently I need to
> edit the EDITME file. This looks like something out of a 1950s
> American science fiction film :-) I mean... what am I supposed to do
This is what I meant about "the comments below". Surely you don't want a
point and click interface? You chose to use Linux for your machine, not
Windows, after all.
You really don't need to change much in there to get it working on most
systems, but you need some way to tell exim where its spool dir is, what
its uid and gid are, and so forth, and a 'flat' text file (which is very
well commented, by the way) is really portable. A GUI would not be so
portable.
> here ??? Which bit do I chop around for my dialup SuSE machine that
> I use at home ??
If there is an option you don't understand then it would be useful to
say what you don't understand about it. Then people can respond with
specifics, improve the docs further, or whatever. I really don't think
people can say how to setup your system to meet your requirements without
knowing what those requirements are or without seeing it.
If you look at recent correspondence in the archives you will see remarks
about consultancy, and the levels of fees people expect :-).
Futhermore, exim is designed so you can test it without installing it.
The manual has a section on testing at this stage. So you can always
use trial and error....
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Richard
> Sheffield UK
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