Re: [Exim] Exim instructions

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Richard Torrens wrote:

[..]

> For instance, my own case..
> On Arachsys.com as a user I seem to have two 'controls'. The 'aliases'
> directory and the .forward file. The aliases file gets looked up when I
> post an email and when one is received. The received email is then dumped
> to my shell account (if it passes the aliases file) where it is further
> processed according to the .forward file.

Just a note - how a specific installation of exim works, what files or
directories it uses, and how it handles delivery of mail, is *very* site
specific, since the entirething is exremely configurable.

If you have questions about how mail flows on your service providers
system you should really ask them, as the members of this list probably
have no idea (unless your sysadmin reads this list, but thats a rather
roundabout way to ask your sysadmin a question).

This list is for sysadmins that need to run exim and configure it to
their needs, wether than be looking up users in an SQL database or
setting up special aliasing to pass mail to a UUCP system.

Most users don't have much need to interact directly with exim, aside
from any specific interfaces that are set up by your service provider
(such as .forward, which is a pretty standard unix mail concept), or
your aliases directory (which I have no idea what function it serves,
since its not a standard unix concept, and I have no particular
knowledge as to how your sysadmins set it up.

Again - contact your services provider or organizations mail admin -
they will be able to tell you how specific resources are available on
your specific site.

[..]