Installation of Exim
Before building Exim, as the
root user you should create the
group and user exim which will run
the exim daemon:
groupadd -g 31 exim &&
useradd -d /dev/null -c "Exim Daemon" -g exim -s /bin/false -u 31 exim
Install Exim with the following
commands:
sed -e 's,^BIN_DIR.*$,BIN_DIRECTORY=/usr/sbin,' \
-e 's,^CONF.*$,CONFIGURE_FILE=/etc/exim.conf,' \
-e 's,^EXIM_USER.*$,EXIM_USER=exim,' \
-e 's,^EXIM_MONITOR,#EXIM_MONITOR,' src/EDITME > Local/Makefile &&
make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install &&
install -v -m644 doc/exim.8 /usr/share/man/man8 &&
install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/exim-4.61 &&
install -v -m644 doc/* /usr/share/doc/exim-4.61 &&
ln -sv exim /usr/sbin/sendmail
Command Explanations
sed -e ... >
Local/Makefile: Most of Exim's configuration options are compiled in
using the directives in Local/Makefile which is created from the
src/EDITME file. This command
specifies the minimum set of options. Descriptions for the options
are listed below.
BIN_DIRECTORY=/usr/sbin:
This installs all of Exim's
binaries and scripts in /usr/sbin.
CONFIGURE_FILE=/etc/exim.conf: This
installs Exim's main configuration
file in /etc.
EXIM_USER=exim: This tells
Exim that after the daemon no
longer needs root privileges, the
process hands off the daemon to the exim user.
#EXIM_MONITOR: This defers
building the Exim monitor program,
as it requires X Window System
support, by commenting out the EXIM_MONITOR line in the Makefile. If you wish to build the monitor
program, omit this sed command and issue the
following command before building the package (modify Local/eximon.conf, if necessary): cp exim_monitor/EDITME
Local/eximon.conf.
ln -sv exim
/usr/sbin/sendmail: Creates a link to sendmail for applications which
need it. Exim will accept most
Sendmail command-line options.
Configuring Exim
/etc/exim.conf and /etc/aliases
Configuration Information
A default (nothing but comments) /etc/aliases file is installed during the
package installation if this file did not exist on your system.
Create the necessary aliases and start the Exim daemon using the following commands:
cat >> /etc/aliases << "EOF"
postmaster: root
MAILER-DAEMON: root
EOF
exim -v -bi &&
/usr/sbin/exim -bd -q15m
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
Note
To protect an existing /etc/aliases file, the command above
appends these aliases to it. This file should be checked and
duplicate aliases removed, if present.
The /usr/sbin/exim -bd
-q15m command starts the Exim daemon with a 15 minute interval in
processing the mail queue. Adjust this parameter to suit your
desires.
To automate the running of exim at startup, install the
/etc/rc.d/init.d/exim init script
included in the blfs-bootscripts-20060910 package.
make install-exim
The bootscript also starts the Exim daemon and dispatches a queue runner
process every 15 minutes. Modify the -q<time
interval> parameter in /etc/rc.d/init.d/exim, if necessary for your
installation.
Contents
Installed
Programs: exicyclog,
exigrep, exim, exim-4.43-2, exim_checkaccess, exim_dbmbuild,
exim_dumpdb, exim_fixdb, exim_lock, exim_tidydb, eximstats,
exinext, exipick, exiqgrep, exiqsumm, exiwhat, and optionally,
eximon, and eximon.bin
Installed
Libraries: None
Installed
Directories: /usr/share/doc/exim-4.61 and /var/spool/exim
Short Descriptions
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exicyclog
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cycles Exim log files.
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exigrep
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searches Exim log files.
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exim
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is a symlink to the exim-4.43-2 MTA daemon.
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exim-4.43-2
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is the Exim mail
transport agent daemon.
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exim_checkaccess
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states whether a given recipient address from a given
host is acceptable or not.
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exim_dbmbuild
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creates and rebuilds Exim databases.
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exim_dumpdb
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writes the contents of Exim databases to the standard
output.
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exim_fixdb
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modifies data in Exim
databases.
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exim_lock
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locks a mailbox file.
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exim_tidydb
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removes old records from Exim databases.
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eximstats
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generates mail statistics from Exim log files.
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exinext
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queries remote host retry times.
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exipick
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selects messages based on various criteria.
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exiqgrep
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is a utility for selective queue listing.
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exiqsumm
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produces a summary of the messages in the mail queue.
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exiwhat
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queries running Exim
processes.
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eximon
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is a start-up shell script for eximon.bin used to set
the required environment variables before running the
program.
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eximon.bin
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is a monitor program which displays current information
in an X window, and also
contains a menu interface to Exim's command line administration
options.
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Last updated on 2007-04-04 21:42:53 +0200