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Part VI xml update + bz815

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     1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
     2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
     3   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
     4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
     5  %general-entities;
     6
     7<!ENTITY exim-download-http "http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/mail/exim/exim4/exim-&exim-version;.tar.bz2">
     8<!ENTITY exim-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/exim-&exim-version;.tar.bz2">
     9<!ENTITY exim-size "1.2 MB">
     10<!ENTITY exim-buildsize "11 MB">
     11<!ENTITY exim-time "0.27 SBU">
     12
     13]>
     14
    115<sect1 id="exim" xreflabel="Exim-&exim-version;">
    216<?dbhtml filename="exim.html"?>
    317<title>Exim-&exim-version;</title>
    418
    5 &exim-intro;
    6 &exim-inst;
    7 &exim-exp;
    8 &exim-config;
    9 &exim-desc;
     19<sect2>
     20<title>Introduction to <application>Exim</application></title>
     21
     22<para>The <application>Exim</application> package contains a Mail Transport Agent written by the
     23University of Cambridge, released under the <acronym>GNU</acronym> Public License.</para>
     24
     25<sect3><title>Package information</title>
     26<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
     27<listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&exim-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
     28<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&exim-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
     29<listitem><para>Download size: &exim-size;</para></listitem>
     30<listitem><para>Estimated Disk space required: &exim-buildsize;</para></listitem>
     31<listitem><para>Estimated build time: &exim-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
     32</sect3>
     33
     34<sect3><title><application>Exim</application> dependencies</title>
     35<sect4><title>Required</title>
     36<para><xref linkend="db"/>
     37</para></sect4>
     38<sect4><title>Optional</title>
     39<para>
     40X (<xref linkend="xfree86"/> or <xref linkend="xorg"/>),
     41<xref linkend="openldap"/>,
     42<xref linkend="mysql"/>,
     43<xref linkend="tcpwrappers"/> and
     44<xref linkend="Linux_PAM"/>
     45</para></sect4>
     46</sect3>
     47
     48</sect2>
     49
     50<sect2>
     51<title>Installation of <application>Exim</application></title>
     52
     53<para>Before building <application>Exim</application>, we need to
     54create the group and user exim which will run the exim daemon:</para>
     55
     56<screen><userinput><command>groupadd exim &amp;&amp;
     57useradd -d /dev/null -g exim -s /bin/false exim</command></userinput></screen>
     58
     59<para>Install <application>Exim</application> with the following commands:</para>
     60
     61<screen><userinput><command>sed -e 's/^BIN_DIR.*$/BIN_DIRECTORY=\/usr\/sbin/' src/EDITME | \
     62  sed -e 's/^CONF.*$/CONFIGURE_FILE=\/etc\/exim.conf/' | \
     63  sed -e 's/^EXIM_USER.*$/EXIM_USER=exim/' | \
     64  sed -e 's/^EXIM_MONITOR/#EXIM_MONITOR/' > Local/Makefile &amp;&amp;
     65make &amp;&amp;
     66make install &amp;&amp;
     67cp doc/exim.8 /usr/share/man/man8 &amp;&amp;
     68ln -s exim-4.24-1 /usr/sbin/exim &amp;&amp;
     69ln -s exim /usr/sbin/sendmail</command></userinput></screen>
     70
     71</sect2>
     72
     73<sect2>
     74<title>Command explanations</title>
     75
     76<para><command>sed -e ... > Local/Makefile</command>: Many of
     77<application>Exim</application>'s
     78configuration options are compiled in. Here, we specify the minimum set
     79of options, <parameter>BIN_DIRECTORY</parameter>,
     80<parameter>CONFIGURE_FILE</parameter> and
     81<parameter>EXIM_USER</parameter>. We also defer
     82building the <application>Exim</application> monitor program, which
     83requires the <application>X</application> Window System
     84support, by commenting out the <parameter>EXIM_MONITOR</parameter> line
     85in the <filename>Makefile</filename>.</para>
     86
     87<para><command>ln -s exim /usr/sbin/sendmail</command>:
     88Create a link to <command>sendmail</command> for applications which need
     89it. <application>Exim</application> will
     90accept most <application>Sendmail</application> command-line options.</para>
     91
     92</sect2>
     93
     94<sect2>
     95<title>Configuring Exim</title>
     96
     97<sect3><title>Config files</title>
     98
     99<para><filename>/etc/exim.conf</filename>, <filename>/etc/aliases</filename></para>
     100
     101</sect3>
     102
     103<sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
     104
     105<para>Create the Exim configuration files with the following commands:</para>
     106
     107<screen><userinput><command>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/aliases &lt;&lt; "EOF"</command>
     108postmaster: root
     109MAILER-DAEMON: root
     110<command>EOF
     111exim -v -bi &amp;&amp;
     112/usr/sbin/exim -bd -q1m</command></userinput></screen>
     113
     114<note><para>To protect an existing <filename>/etc/aliases</filename>
     115file, we will append these aliases to it if it exists. This file
     116should be checked and duplicate aliases removed, if
     117present.</para></note>
     118
     119<para>To automate the running of exim at startup,
     120install the <filename>/etc/rc.d/init.d/exim</filename>
     121init script included in the <xref linkend="intro-important-bootscripts"/> package.</para>
     122
     123<screen><userinput><command>make install-exim</command></userinput></screen>
     124
     125</sect3>
     126
     127</sect2>
     128
     129<sect2>
     130<title>Contents</title>
     131
     132<para>The <application>Exim</application> package contains
     133<command>exim</command>,
     134<command>exim_dumpdb</command>,
     135<command>exim_fixdb</command>,
     136<command>exim_tidydb</command>,
     137<command>exinext</command>,
     138<command>exiwhat</command>,
     139<command>exim_dbmbuild</command>,
     140<command>exicyclog</command>,
     141<command>exigrep</command>,
     142<command>eximstats</command>,
     143<command>exiqsumm</command>,
     144<command>exiqgrep</command>,
     145<command>exim_lock</command> and
     146<command>exim_checkaccess</command>.
     147</para>
     148
     149</sect2>
     150
     151<sect2><title>Description</title>
     152<sect3><title>exim</title>
     153<para><command>exim</command> is the Mail Transport Agent daemon.</para></sect3>
     154
     155<sect3><title>exim_dumpdb</title>
     156<para><command>exim_dumpdb</command> writes the contents of exim databases to the
     157standard output.</para></sect3>
     158
     159<sect3><title>exim_fixdb</title>
     160<para><command>exim_fixdb</command> modifies data in exim databases.</para></sect3>
     161
     162<sect3><title>exim_tidydb</title>
     163<para><command>exim_tidydb</command> removes old records from exim databases.</para></sect3>
     164
     165<sect3><title>exinext</title>
     166<para><command>exinext</command> queries remote host retry times.</para></sect3>
     167
     168<sect3><title>exiwhat</title>
     169<para><command>exiwhat</command> queries running exim processes.</para></sect3>
     170
     171<sect3><title>exim_dbmbuild</title>
     172<para><command>exim_dbmbuild</command> creates and rebuilds exim
     173databases.</para></sect3>
     174
     175<sect3><title>exicyclog</title>
     176<para><command>exicyclog</command> cycles exim log files.</para></sect3>
     177
     178<sect3><title>exigrep</title>
     179<para><command>exigrep</command> searches exim log files.</para></sect3>
     180
     181<sect3><title>eximstats</title>
     182<para><command>eximstats</command> generates mail statistics from exim log
     183files.</para></sect3>
     184
     185<sect3><title>exiqsumm</title>
     186<para><command>exiqsumm</command> produces a summary of the messages on the mail
     187queue.</para></sect3>
     188
     189<sect3><title>exiqgrep</title>
     190<para><command>exiqgrep</command> is an utility for selective queue
     191listing.</para></sect3>
     192
     193<sect3><title>exim_lock</title>
     194<para><command>exim_lock</command> locks a mailbox file.</para></sect3>
     195
     196<sect3><title>exim_checkaccess</title>
     197<para><command>exim_checkaccess</command> states whether a given recipient address from a
     198given host is acceptable or not.</para></sect3>
     199
     200</sect2>
    10201
    11202</sect1>
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