We have now fixed the dates for the next Exim course here in Cambridge,
England. Here they are for your diaries: 24/25/26 June, 2002. This
course will be longer than previous ones, running from lunchtime on
Monday 24 to lunchtime on Wednesday 26. The course will be based on Exim
4, and I hope it will serve both as an introduction for newcomers, and
as a conversion course for old hands.
This is just a preliminary announcement to tell you about the dates. We
are not yet able to take bookings (the prices are not yet set!) A more
detailed announcement will be made in due course when registration
arrangements are in place.
The contents of the course are also still at an early stage of
preparation, and I expect to provide more detail later. Roughly, it is
intended to divide the course into three main parts, with a "warm-up"
introduction to Internet mail at the start. The timetable will be
approximately as below. The order is a bit artificial, but the idea is
that people who have attended previous courses may want to skip the
first afternoon, because that material is basically the same in Exim 3
and Exim 4.
Monday June 24
Pre-lunch: a "warm-up" session - Introduction to Internet Mail (1 hour)
Afternoon: Introduction to Exim - background, how it works overall,
process structure, configuration file structure,
operator controls, logs, utilities, some global
configuration options, address rewriting, retry rules.
Tuesday June 25
Morning: How Exim 4 delivers mail - details of routers and
transports. We hope to have an external speaker to give
a presentation on the use of LDAP with Exim.
Afternoon: Control of incoming mail in Exim 4. Access Control Lists
and policy controls. SMTP authentication. Use of TLS
encryption.
Wednesday June 26
Morning: Advanced topics - an external speaker will give a
presentation on the use of Exim in very large
installations. The remaining time will be used to go into
more detail about some or all of: data lookups, regular
expressions, string expansions, spam checking, and policy
control. There will also be time for discussion and
questions.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
