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Date:      Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:15:57 +0200
From:      Alexander Werner Skwar <askwar@DigitalProjects.com>
To:        Marius Vincent <mvincent@elcb.co.za>
Cc:        freeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Installing exim and removing sendmail
Message-ID:  <20000428101557.E2187@gartenfrucht.DigitalProjects.com>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBJNFFELDAHIBIGIAMCEFLCBAA.mvincent@elcb.co.za>; from mvincent@elcb.co.za on Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 09:53:33AM %2B0200
References:  <20000428085231.F8007@gartenfrucht.DigitalProjects.com> <NEBBJNFFELDAHIBIGIAMCEFLCBAA.mvincent@elcb.co.za>

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On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 09:53:33AM +0200, Marius Vincent wrote:
> Alex
> 
> I am running Exim 3.12 on a FreeBSD 3.4 box.

Hmm, where do I need to put the configuration file for exim?  I just
have a /usr/local/etc/exim/configure.sample.  Does the config file go to
/usr/local/etc/exim/configure or does it go to
/usr/local/etc/exim.conf?

> 
> The three conf changes I did is.
> I disabled sendmail (sendmail_enable=no , in /etc/rc.conf).
> The other change is, I removed the binary of sendmail under /usr/sbin.
> And the last change I made is a simbolic link from sendmail to
> Exim(usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/local/sbin/exim).
> 
> I done this, because whenever the cron calls to do the routine messaging via
> sendmail it will point towards exim, I must add that it does work rather
> nicely.
> 
> And don't worry about /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim.sh it gets called up at
> bootup.
> 
> Ohhhh yeah...and I have nothing but praise for Exim.
> 
> Thanx
> 
> Marius Vincent
> Technical
> ELCB Information Services
> 
> 
> Hello!
> As I don't quite understand the configuration of sendmail and don't
> really want to learn how sendmail is to be configured, I'd like to
> install exim as the MTA on my system.
> What do I need to do to
> 
> - disable sendmail -> is it enough, when I insert a line
> sendmail_enable=no to my /etc/rc.conf?
> 
> - remove sendmail -> which package contains sendmail?  I grepped through
> the listing of pkg_info -La for /usr/sbin/sendmail, and did not find
> anything at all.
> 
> - install exim 3.13 -> I downloaded exim-3.13.tgz from ftp.freebsd.org
> and pkg_add'ed it.  That was a pretty easy step ;-)
> 
> - enable exim 3.13 -> Okay, I found /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim.sh.  How do
> I make sure that this script is executed at boot time?  Would I create a
> /etc/rc.local and insert a call to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim.sh there?
> Would that be enough?  This question also applies to MySQL which seems
> to be started thru /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh.
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Oh, almost forgot to mention: I'm using FreeBSD 4.0.
> 
> Alexander Skwar
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