On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 22:32:40 GMT, Ronny Hanssen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

> far so good, but the admins then found that they wanted to change into
> Exim instead. Which seems like it has a bit more cumbersome road to
> Success(tm)... 
Well actually I wouldn't agree with that - I have used both and 
personally (for business and home use) prefer Exim. But that's a personal 
preference discussion not relevant here. 

Just because the tmda list is mostly qmail folks don't assume that there 
are not Exim people lurking :-)

> My question is real basic: I see from the pre-configuration pages that
> Exim needs some extra settings. I have browsed the system
> /etc/exim/exim.conf file and some of the required settings are
> missing. Is there any way that I can get around this? Can I make a
> local exim.conf file to override the system one (I guess not...)?.
What do you want to know? How to config Exim to work with tmda? What 
version of Exim are you running? It's easy to configure.

> Secondly; my clients are running either as pine in a ssh-session on
> the server, or via Outlook Express (on WinXP). I have setup
> tmda-ofmipd on the server and I am sending mails via this interface
> without problems from Outlook Express (running tmda-ofmipd as a user
> process in the background). However, how can I setup pine to use the
> tmda-ofmipd server instead of sendmail?
Well firstly with Exim you don't need extra overhead of running tmda-
ofmipd at all don't know if qmail gives you this facility though (oops 
bias creeping in :-) ).

OK being serious now, have a look at 
http://tmda.net/faq.cgi?req=show&file=faq07.006.htp


> Also, I might be wrong, but I understand it so that if I use
> tmda-ofmipd for all mails I send (also for pine), then I don't have to
> worry about the Exim setup? Or have I totally misunderstood what
> tmda-ofmipd is doing? 
?? Think you misunderstand what tmda-ofmpid is meant to be for. It's not 
a full featured MTA like Exim and qmail don't go down that road.

> Also, I am planning on including a spamassasin check before the
> message is transported to TMDA. Instructions for this I have found on
> the net. However - how do I go about to use RBL (real-time Black List)
> even before the spamassasin check? Or must the RBL check be
> implemented by the host sysadmins?
Exim has full support for spamassassin plus a couple of 'addon-ons' - 
Exiscan and Exim-SA which give you many many options.

To use RBL's in Exim is trivial - read the Exim spec doc or you might 
want to visit the Exim mailing list which you can do more easily on Gmane 
news server at gmane.mail.exim.user

Cheers

Patrick

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