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diff --git a/network/exim/README b/network/exim/README index 58c1319e80..64476d0c07 100644 --- a/network/exim/README +++ b/network/exim/README @@ -1,36 +1,11 @@ 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 the -most common features. The various database lookup methods will not be -built by default but can be enabled easily on the command line or by -editing a few lines in the Makefile. - -Exim can be integrated with other email tools such as Clamav, Spamassassin, +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 and +can be integrated with other email tools such as Clamav, Spamassassin, Bogofilter, and others available at Slackbuilds.org. -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! - -The SQL- and LDAP-lookups will not be built by default, -but you can enable them easily by passing the directives -on the command line when calling this script, e.g. +Exim was orginally written by Philip Hazel for use in the University of +Cambridge Computing Services e-mail systems. - LOOKUP_LDAP=yes LOOKUP_SQLITE=yes \ - LOOKUP_MYSQL=yes LOOKUP_PGSQL=yes \ - sh exim.SlackBuild +Please see README.SBo for important information on how to build and +install this package. |