Nizar KHEIR wrote: > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])/usr/exim$: bin/exim > Exim is a Mail Transfer Agent. It is normally called by Mail User Agents, > not directly from a shell command line. Options and/or arguments control > what it does when called. For a list of options, see the Exim documentation.
Start/stop methods vary with the system you're running on. There are differences even between linux distributions. > > So maybe i am a bit confused about the role of exim as a MTA, and the > necessity of a MUA. > As it appears from this message, i will not be able to "Execute an exim > daemon", just like sendmail for example. > Any comments, clarifications, notification, ... ? In general you'd want something like "exim -bd -q20m" to start exim in daemon mode. Look at the docs on http://exim.org for the meanings of command-line options. Cheers, Jeremy -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
