On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 03:16:33PM -0400, Chris Siebenmann wrote: > > Let me rephrase the question more generally. Suppose there were > > three local users; alan, ben, and charles. Can exim be configured > > so that if ben wants to send mail to charles he uses whatever his > > MUA to enter 'charles' and the mail stays here; presumable charles > > could sent messages to 'alan' and 'ben' and the mail would stay > > here. But any other message, with a more complete address -- way to > > [email protected], would get sent off by exim to krypton.org and to > > Superman's mbox(we know Superman doesn't use Maildir, don't we?) > > > > I bet there is a way of doing this with exim, and I bet you and lots > > of others here know how. > > The simple answer is that Exim can certainly do this but it's unlikely > that anyone is going to have a canned configuration to do this that they > can dump out here. > > The best way to think of Exim in its basic state is that it is not a > mailer so much as a mailer construction kit. To actually use Exim as a > MTA, you build whatever actual specific mailer you need out of it by > designing and programming a series of both ACL rules and routers (and > sometimes transports). Chris, I'm already terrified! But I have forwarded your mail to my home machine . . .
> [I wrote about this approach at more length and in perhaps a more > readable way here: > http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/EximRouterPower > if people are interested in it. There's also > http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/EximMailerKit > on the general mindset of Exim as a mailer construction kit. > ] . . . . and I shall certainly take a look at the above URLs. I thank you for your reply! Alan -- Alan McConnell alan @ razor dot globaltap dot com "If brute force doesn't work, you are not using enough." -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
