Christopher Baker <
mailto:chris@chrisbaker.net> wrote:
> I built from the source, edited the makefile, did make, and then make
> install. I did Exim 3 or something on there before. There was a lot of
> work involved in getting this special version of Exim installed, and I
> really don't want to go back.
I know you spent a lot of work getting Exim 4 installed from source, but the
native Debian packages are very complete, and very nice. I would save your
configuration, and install the exim4 binary packages. Debian offers two
ways of keeping the configuration, split among multiple files (which I love
and use), or in a single file. Both ways are complicated by the fact that
Debian will auto generate a config file to /var/lib/exim4 based on either of
the above configurations. It merges it with a debconf answer file, so I
wouldn't imagine you want to just drop your configuration in place, but you
could certainly move it over in pieces quite easily.
> If there is another way to install these packages, please let me
> know. I took a lot to get the graylisting up, and I don't want to
> screw it up.
Marc Merlin has implemented a very nice form of grey listing in his SA-Exim
local_scan plug-in. The debian packages have support for dynamically loaded
local_scan modules, and Marc has a Debian source tree for it. Download the
.diff, .dsc, and .tar.gz files, do a 'dpkg-source -x sa-exim*.dsc', change
to the sa-exim* dir, and do a 'debian/rules binary' to build the package.
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/files/debian/
If you need any help setting this up, you can contact me off list. I've
done this many, many times.
Steven
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Steven Dickenson <sdickenson@???>
Network Administrator
The Key School, Annapolis Maryland
