Re: [Exim] Newbie looking for lots of help....

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Author: Peter N Lewis
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Newbie looking for lots of help....
At 22:38 +0000 12/6/02, John (TJ) Penton wrote:

>Later, if you start doing aliasing, you will want to create an alias file
>too. Exim shouldn't need any other files iirc.


I think you need the alias file immediately as it is referenced from
the default configuration, however you can use the default aliases
file (or even a blank one for now, although at least postmaster:
your@address would be good to have in it).

>Does the user "user" exist on the system which Exim is running on? If
>not, create the user with the useradd command (or edit /etc/passwd).


I didn't want to do this, so I tracked down a perl popd written by
Tobin Fricke, and after a bunch of changes and cleanup ended up with
a pop server that just uses a private password file so that users
don't have to have a real login account. I also wrote a quick
popassd as well so they can change their password. I'll make these
available when they are stabilized if anyone is interested.

>Unless you configure it especially to do so, Exim won't deliver mail to
>users that don't exist on the system (other than forwarding it to another
>mail server).


Yep, although it's not hard.  But it does require reading the
configuration file and a fair amount of the very good manual (I just
wish Acrobat searched the PDF faster!).
    Peter.
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