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Install the Exim info files with more useful names. Before, the command ``info exim'' would fail to descend into any of the 3 Exim info files from the dir top branch. While we're at it, add a pkg-message that 1) Points to the documentation 2) Explains how to get Exim started
2001-06-14 19:37:59 +02:00
The following documentation has been installed:
info 'Exim Overview' -> Overview of Exim
info Exim -> Exim Specification (User Guide)
info 'Exim Filtering' -> Exim Filter Specification (for end-users)
Postscript, PDF, HTML and plain text versions of these documents, as well
Suggest the use of newsyslog(8) for log rotation. The exicyclog utility supplied with Exim is intended for systems that don't have something as nifty as newsyslog(8). I'm tempted to remove the utility from the port/package, but this delta to pkg-message is less controversial.
2001-07-02 17:09:40 +02:00
as a comprehensive FAQ list, are available at http://www.exim.org/ .
Install the Exim info files with more useful names. Before, the command ``info exim'' would fail to descend into any of the 3 Exim info files from the dir top branch. While we're at it, add a pkg-message that 1) Points to the documentation 2) Explains how to get Exim started
2001-06-14 19:37:59 +02:00
Clarify that the steps involving mailwrapper(8) don't replace the a sendmail installation, but cause exim to be run instead of sendmail on startup.
2001-07-09 13:29:29 +02:00
To run Exim instead of sendmail on startup:
Install the Exim info files with more useful names. Before, the command ``info exim'' would fail to descend into any of the 3 Exim info files from the dir top branch. While we're at it, add a pkg-message that 1) Points to the documentation 2) Explains how to get Exim started
2001-06-14 19:37:59 +02:00
Retire our local copy of configure.default, which is a maintenance pain. Replace it with a patch against the distribution configure.default, which changes as little as possible so that folks who are accustomed to Exim on other platforms will not be astonished. Install the file as configure.default instead of configure.sample, since it's as close as damnit to the default Exim configuration file. The only arguably unnecessary deviation from the default is: * Accept SMTP relay from the loopback IP address. Too many applications require this, and the window of abuse is arguably negligible.
2001-06-14 20:43:05 +02:00
1) Create exim/configure from exim/configure.default .
Exim is a drop-in replacement for sendmail. Since 4.1-RELEASE, FreeBSD has shipped with mailwrapper(8), which facilitates the use of drop-in replacements for sendmail. Retire exim.sh in favour of the mailwrapper(8) approach. Requested by: AMAKAWA Shuhei <sa264@cam.ac.uk>
2001-06-15 16:12:44 +02:00
2) Stop the sendmail daemon.
3) Adjust mailer.conf(5) and set 'sendmail_enable' and 'sendmail_flags'
as appropriate in rc.conf(5).
4) Start exim with appropriate command-line options.
Suggest the use of newsyslog(8) for log rotation. The exicyclog utility supplied with Exim is intended for systems that don't have something as nifty as newsyslog(8). I'm tempted to remove the utility from the port/package, but this delta to pkg-message is less controversial.
2001-07-02 17:09:40 +02:00
You may also want to configure newsyslog(8) to rotate Exim log files:
# Only HUP Exim once when rejectlog and mainlog are rotated.
Too many people have complained about my choice of MTA user (sendmail). Bite the bullet _now_ and use MTA user exim instead. This means that only early adopters of Exim-3.31 are affected, rather than lots more folks further down the line. I still think mailnull is better, but nobody in the Exim community agrees with me. :-) Bump PORTREVISION as appropriate.
2001-07-11 13:22:32 +02:00
/var/log/exim/mainlog exim:mail 640 7 * @T00 Z /var/run/exim.pid
/var/log/exim/rejectlog exim:mail 640 7 * @T00 Z
Suggest the use of newsyslog(8) for log rotation. The exicyclog utility supplied with Exim is intended for systems that don't have something as nifty as newsyslog(8). I'm tempted to remove the utility from the port/package, but this delta to pkg-message is less controversial.
2001-07-02 17:09:40 +02:00
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