Re: [Exim] About exim

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Author: J.R. Van Valen
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] About exim
Exim is well-documented; you should take advantage of that. A lot of the
terms and concepts that you asked about are explained very clearly in the
docs.

It is generally considered common courtesy if you read the docs before
presenting questions to a mailing list. You should start with the Exim
specification, which is on the website <http://www.exim.org/> and in doc/
of the source. It is generally

However, I will offer my insight on procmail, which you did ask about.

On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 02:16:36PM -0500, Larry wrote:
> Is Exim supposed to run procmail during a mail run? Is there a
> configuration example somewhere that I can get that shows how to set
> procmail up for running, such as how to call it and what commands to use?


Exim by default does not use procmail; however, it is very easy to
configure.

You will need to create a procmail transport and a procmail director.

An example of such:

## PROCMAIL TRANSPORT ##
procmail:
driver = pipe
command = "/usr/bin/procmail -d ${local_part}"

## PROCMAIL DIRECTOR ##
procmail:
driver = localuser
require_files = /usr/bin/procmail
transport = procmail

Make sure that you place those in the appropriate section of the
configuration file.

Regards,

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J.R. Van Valen
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