On 2006-03-10 at 09:15 -0500, Thad Bryson wrote:
> What's a central_filter router configuration? And how do I know what to
> change?
If you're using Exim pre-packaged by an operating system vendor, look to
see if that vendor has any pointers for their custom set-up. Eg, Debian
has a rather complex set-up which is different enough from the standard
template config that it's difficult to answer questions here, so Debian
provides resources for Exim questions and help.
The Exim Specification is very readable; it's a full reference manual
(the manual is the spec, a healthy attitude) which is very readable.
This should be included with your distribution ("spec.txt" and perhaps
other formats) and is also online at
www.exim.org.
There's also a book written by the author, which is more of a tutorial
and highly recommended.
Quick hack to find out for you:
shellprompt$ exim -bP router central_filter | egrep '^(file|data) '
The output should include a filename; look in that file.
More generally, to figure these things out:
Type "exim -bV". The last line should look something like:
----------------------------8< cut here >8------------------------------
Configuration file is /etc/exim/exim.conf
----------------------------8< cut here >8------------------------------
Whichever file it says, look at it. If it references other files via
".include", you'll need to look at those too.
After a line "begin routers" will be a bunch of configs for routers,
each started by a line "routername:", so you're looking for
"central_filter:". There will be rules after that which say what the
router does.
Exim config is normally very readable even without having read the
manual, at the very least to figuring out what files are being
referenced. It's possible to write unreadable Exim configs, but for
most people this is not _normal_. Try reading the config.
Regards,
-Phil
