On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 03:16:33PM -0400, Chris Siebenmann wrote:
> > Let me rephrase the question more generally. Suppose there were
> > three local users; alan, ben, and charles. Can exim be configured
> > so that if ben wants to send mail to charles he uses whatever his
> > MUA to enter 'charles' and the mail stays here; presumable charles
> > could sent messages to 'alan' and 'ben' and the mail would stay
> > here. But any other message, with a more complete address -- way to
> > superman@???, would get sent off by exim to krypton.org and to
> > Superman's mbox(we know Superman doesn't use Maildir, don't we?)
> >
> > I bet there is a way of doing this with exim, and I bet you and lots
> > of others here know how.
>
> The simple answer is that Exim can certainly do this but it's unlikely
> that anyone is going to have a canned configuration to do this that they
> can dump out here.
>
> The best way to think of Exim in its basic state is that it is not a
> mailer so much as a mailer construction kit. To actually use Exim as a
> MTA, you build whatever actual specific mailer you need out of it by
> designing and programming a series of both ACL rules and routers (and
> sometimes transports).
Chris, I'm already terrified! But I have forwarded your
mail to my home machine . . .
> [I wrote about this approach at more length and in perhaps a more
> readable way here:
> http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/EximRouterPower
> if people are interested in it. There's also
> http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/EximMailerKit
> on the general mindset of Exim as a mailer construction kit.
> ]
. . . . and I shall certainly take a look at the above
URLs. I thank you for your reply!
Alan
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