Re: [Exim] any way to enable auth from the command line?

Top Page
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Philip Hazel
Date:  
To: Trevor Sky Garside
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] any way to enable auth from the command line?
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Trevor Sky Garside wrote:

> Are you saying that each time Exim is called on port 25 for an incoming
> email, it will re-read the conf file? I would like for that to be the case,
> but it is not doing that on my system.


The daemon won't re-read the config file, no. But, after it has received
a message, if it is configured to do immediate delivery, and it is
running as the Exim user (recommended), then the new process that it
forks to to do the delivery will re-exec Exim and thus reread the file.

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.