Re: [Exim] Tips/hints on installing Exim on Red Hat?

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:57:54PM -0700, Aviram Carmi said:
> I am looking to install exim to replace the default sendmail on Red
> Hat Linux (currently 7.3, soon to be 9.0, if I find the courage to
> mess with it...)
>
> I would like to use exim with mailman and with a spam/virus scanner.
>
> I manage several domain names, i.e. virtual domains.
>
> I looked around and found the exim/mailman2.1 HOWTO.
>
> but I could not find any information regarding exim and RHL.
>
> anything I should watch out for with RHL?

I just did this on a rh 8 box a couple days ago. Basically, I did a
force-remove of sendmail (because it claims that other packages depend
on it) and did an install of exim from source. It's pretty straight
forward. You may find that you need a few of the "-devel" packages
depending on what options you configured in your exim Local/Makefile.
Then it's just a matter of making some sendmail compatability links
(check the /etc/alternatives directory before removing sendmail, and do a
"locate" on sendmail to see where RH wants things) and a startup script
(I just put it in rc.local)

I also applied the exiscan ACL patch, which is trivial to do.

I actually don't use much of the RedHat packages for any of my main
stuff. What I usually do is custom configure and compile the main
software, whether it's the database, apache, perl, exim, etc. for
whatever role the machine plays. This allows me to keep a fairly stable
environment and only upgrade things when I need to, which may be more or
less frequent than RH would do. It also allows me to move my main
applications to ANY version of linux or even unix in general without
much of a fuss. This is very much the same as the kernel where you
custom compile to the hardware, adding patches and tweaks as needed.