source: server/mail/exim/exim-config.xml@ 95079c36

<sect2>
<title>Configuring exim</title>

<sect3><title>Config files</title>

<para><filename>/etc/exim.conf</filename>, <filename>/etc/aliases</filename></para>

</sect3>

<sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>

<para>Create the exim configuration files with the following commands:</para> 

<screen><userinput><command>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/aliases &lt;&lt; "EOF"</command>
postmaster: root
MAILER-DAEMON: root
<command>EOF
exim -v -bi &amp;&amp;
/usr/sbin/exim -bd -q1m</command></userinput></screen>

<note><para>To protect an existing <filename>/etc/aliases</filename>
file, we will append these aliases to it if it exists. This file
should be checked and duplicate aliases removed, if
present.</para></note>

<para>To start and stop exim on system boot/shutdown create the
exim boot script with the following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput><command>cat &gt; /etc/rc.d/init.d/exim &lt;&lt; "EOF"</command>
#!/bin/sh
# Begin $rc_base/init.d/exim

# Based on sysklogd script from LFS-3.1 and earlier.
# Rewritten by Gerard Beekmans  - gerard@linuxfromscratch.org

source /etc/sysconfig/rc
source $rc_functions

case "$1" in

        start)
        echo "Starting exim..."
        loadproc /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q1m
        ;;

        stop)
        echo "Stopping exim..."
        killproc exim
        ;;
                
        status)
        statusproc exim
        ;;
        
        restart)
        $0 stop
        sleep 1
        $0 start
        ;;

        *)
        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

# End $rc_base/init.d/exim
<command>EOF
chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/exim</command></userinput></screen>

<para>Create the run level symlinks with the following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput><command>cd /etc/rc.d/init.d &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/exim ../rc0.d/K25exim &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/exim ../rc1.d/K25exim &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/exim ../rc2.d/K25exim &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/exim ../rc3.d/S35exim &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/exim ../rc4.d/S35exim &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/exim ../rc5.d/S35exim &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/exim ../rc6.d/K25exim</command></userinput></screen>

</sect3>

</sect2>