Author: Flemming Christensen Date: To: exim-users Subject: SV: [Exim] how to send all mail from Exim through a mailsweeper on a different server ?
>I am in a "no-win" situation here. If I just answer every query, I will >run out of hours in the day. The mailing list takes up a lot of time as
>it is. So, I've created an FAQ and an O'Reilly book to try to give
>people other sources of information. But some people just come to the
>mailing list without knowing about them - so I feel obliged to point
>them out from time to time. I'm obviously doing this too much, because
>it's provoked two people this week already, and that is not what I want.
Dear Philip,
I really don't expect to get a respons from you personally every time I submit a question here, and if other users think that the question is to easy or to obvious to answer they should just not answer. If I don't get an answer to my question I will again after doing some more tests.
I have received great help from you and other users on the maillingslist, and I really appreciate it. I just thought this would be a place where users/admin helped each other with problems ... and it would be nice if old users could cut new users som slack when they get started with Exim.
Enough said about this issue. Keep up the good work with Exim. The learning curve tuffer than I expected, but I'm confident that the hard spent hours will be worth it, when the "see the light" ;-)
>> Why isn't there a basic description on how to use mysql in Exim and a
>>basic description on how to set up virtual domain/users with mysql ?
>Because I am not an MySQL (or LDAP, or PostgreSQL, or NIS+, or NIS, or
>Oracle, or...) user. Indeed, I'm not even a virtual domain user. It is
>only recently that I discovered that "virtual domains" actually means
>different things to different people. To me it is basically synonymous
>with "alias list", but to other people it is "a domain with mailboxes on
>this host, but the users don't have accounts".
>What I do know I have written in the manual and in the FAQ and in the
>O'Reilly book. Unfortunately, just at the moment the book is out of date
>because it covers Exim 3. I have completed an update for Exim 4. It is
>now up to O'Reilly to publish it. I'm looking forward to the book, and when I have gotten my mysql setup to work I will try to write a tutorial of some kind on how to get started with Mysql and virtual domain users. Can your StarOffice read MS Word documents ? :-)
>> Please try to make room for us rookies and slow learners,
>Everybody is a rookie at something, sometime. I have no problem with
>that. But I do try to teach people how to fish rather than just giving
>them the fish - sometimes maybe too forcefully. I believe in the concept of learning people how to fish.
Answers with pointers on where to look in the manual is ok, but sometimes that is not enough for a rookie. In my casthe problem has been to understand the concept behind Exim. How everything works together. Terminology and stuff.
I think I have routers and transports under control :)
Now I need to understand ACL, Retry and Authorization !
