%First, get & read:
% <http://www.globnix.org/mail-intro.txt>
%
%It's terse, but it explains the main stuff.
%
%Next: sendmail and sendmail.cf shouldn't come into play at all. The
%whole point is that you're replacing sendmail with Exim. Since you're
%using FreeBSD 4.x, you should change /etc/mail/mailer.conf so that it
%refers to exim for "sendmail", "send-mail", "mailq" & "newaliases", and
%the others should be /usr/bin/true or something. You might also want to
%remove setuid from /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail and add
% NO_SENDMAIL= true
%to /etc/make.conf
Thanks. I did not know about that.
%
%At the absolute bare minimum, read section 3 of that document. It will
%explain the concepts, teach you what's what. It will tell you what a
%"Router" is how they're used, and at this point you'll start
%understanding how you'd go about making all external mail goes to one
%box. Especially if you then look-up what a "domainlist" router is.
%
%Ideally, read much more of the Exim Spec. But the most important
%sections for you are probably 3, 6..9, 11 (skim), 40 (explains the
%defaults), 46 (expecially 46.4, explains relaying controls), 51
%(explains the log-files, so you can figure out what's going on) and 52
%("Day-to-day management", says it all). By this time, you'll understand
%what's going on and what fits where.
%
Thanks so much, this really helps.
%Alternatively, if you like O'Reilly books (which all good sysadmin do --
%they explain the topic without teaching you, eg, how to use a
%text-editor (unless it's a book _on_ the text-editor)) then try their
%Exim book. It's written by Philip Hazel, the author of Exim, and
%everyone I know who's read it, really likes it (I've only had time to
%skim).
Way ahead of you on this one :) Its on order, should be arriving in the
next couple of days.
Thanks again.
Regards,
Lee Engel
Systems
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