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Hello,
I also found the book to be a most useful introduction and tutorial to
the exim specification itself. I highly recommend it, especially for
making it easy for you to find out things in the spec you never knew
were there. Furthermore, if you find yourself having to train new
admins, it helps to send them to the pub with a copy :)
Also, thanks Philip for producing a great piece of software.
Yours,
Adam Garside
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 08:15, snurt@??? wrote:
> 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!
> >
> > --
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Richard Torrens
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