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authorThomas Morper <thomas@beingboiled.info>2010-04-07 22:30:26 -0500
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+Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on Unix-like operating systems.
+It is freely available under the GNU GPL and it aims to be a general
+and flexible mailer with extensive facilities for checking incoming e-mail.
+
+Exim was orginally written by Philip Hazel for use in the University
+of Cambridge Computing Services e-mail systems.
+
+Before you can build Exim, you have to create an "exim" user and group:
+ # groupadd -g 222 exim
+ # useradd -d /var/spool/exim -g exim -s /bin/false -u 222 exim
+The recommended uid/gid is 222, but others are fine if you prefer -
+see http://slackbuilds.org/uid_gid.txt for other recommendations.
+
+There's no "configure" script; instead Exim is configured by editing a well
+documented Makefile, which is then included during the build process. The
+provided "exim.Makefile" will build an all-purpose Exim daemon with almost
+all of the features that will work on a standard Slackware system.
+
+Exim can be integrated with other email tools such as Clamav, Spamassassin,
+Bogofilter, and others available at Slackbuilds.org. You might also be
+interested in the "exim-html" package, an extensive documentation for Exim.
+
+WARNING: this package is intended as a drop-in replacement for Sendmail.
+As a result, there are some inevitable filename conflicts between Sendmail
+and Exim. REMOVE SENDMAIL BEFORE INSTALLING THIS PACKAGE!