Hi,
I grabbed the book from amazon, I've found it quite useful, it certainly
helped me through my exim install and management.
I can certainly reccomend it...I would also suggest getting the DNS &
Bind book - published by oreilly as well..its a nice DNS background..(ok
slightly OT that one)
Rgds
Andy
> In article
> <Pine.SOL.4.33.0202220910300.21501-100000@???>,
> Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Richard Torrens wrote:
>
> [Snip]
>
>> > > Have you read my Exim book, published by O'Reilly? That is
>> > > supposed to contain this kind of general, introductory, overview
>> > > information.
>> >
>> > No. I was wondering if the general style of that was different to
>> > your html instructions - it is very difficult for any product
>> > designer to write at an introductory level!
>
>> I know. For this reason, I had hoped that somebody would write the
>> Exim book. There was one attempt, but it foundered, and in the end I
>> had to do it myself. The general style of the book is indeed supposed
>> to be different to the reference manual, but I am not the right person
>> to tell you how well I succeeded. Maybe somebody else on the list who
>> has read it can comment.
>
> I feel a trip to Blackwells in Cambridge coming on... Must check
> whether they have it in first!
>
> [Snip]
>
>> The only "user level" stuff in Exim is filtering, and for that I wrote
>> the document "Exim's interface to mail filtering" with end users in
>> mind. Everything else is for the Exim admin.
>
> Hmmm.. and the aliases files on our server www.arachsys.com
>
> I've not found a lot that I can do in the aliases yet, but it will
> bounce email to a named box, e.g.
>
> electronics: :fail: This email box is closed due to infestation by
> spammers.
>
> which is useful.
>
> [Snip]
>
>> > Since Exim can be run under RiscOS -
>
>> No it can't! Exim is a Unix program. There's no way it could be made
>> to run under RiscOS.
>
> Lots of Unix progs have been ported. I thought I recalled some mention,
> but as I'm mistaken, no problem.
>
>> There's some big misunderstanding going on here. My
>> guess is that you are in some specific environment provided by an ISP
>> that happens to use Exim, but there's other stuff involved as well
>> about which I know nothing, but which you assume is standard with
>> Exim.
>
> This of course is a possibility.. Very difficult to see how to resolve
> that one! But time will tell.
>
>> That's just a guess, of course, but I'm convinced we are at
>> cross-purposes at the moment.
>
> I shall continue to lurk and learn. Though 90% of the postings are not
> relevant to me as they apply only at system level - and without
> hindsight, it's difficult to know what's relevant.
>
> But learning is the excercise - and there's no easy answer to that.
>
> But I hope the exchange has been as useful to you as to me!
>
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