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Author: J C Lawrence
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To: Barry A. Warsaw
CC: exim-users, mailman-developers
Subject: [Exim] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Overhauled 'Exim and Mailman' doc
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:58:14 -0400
Barry A Warsaw <barry@???> wrote:

>>>>>> "JCL" == J C Lawrence <claw@???> writes:


>> Would you like to have the Exim/TMDA/Mailman HOW-TO as a rider on
>> that, or should we tuck it in as a separate README (Barry?).


> Is the document Exim specific, or can you write it to be somewhat
> agnostic towards the mta?


It is absurdly MTA specific. There's really not much choice about that
-- TMDA really needs to get into the mail system at a level just above
acceptance and just below delivery, and that level is quite MTA
specific. Achieving the same ends under Postfix requires bleeding edge
features of Postfix (we;ll, bleeding edge when I did the HOW-TO, I've
not checked since then) and resorting to sub-domains and other gross
perturbations of a mail system. I've not looked at what would be needed
for Sendmail. Jason M of TMDA fame at one point said he'd write a QMail
based HOW-TO, but I haven't noticed that go by yet.

> If so, I'd be happy to add a README.TMDA, or point to any
> documentation in the TMDA web pages.


There's a FAQ entry:

http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.007.htp

It needs updating for Exim4 and newer revs of TMDA, but I'm a mite short
of time for that.

--
J C Lawrence
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