What is Exim conf?

What is Exim conf?

Exim4 is another Message Transfer Agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet. Exim can be installed in place of sendmail, although the configuration of exim is quite different to that of sendmail. Installation. Configuration.

Where is Exim config?

Exim stores its default configuration in its override file, /etc/exim. conf.

Is Exim installed by default?

Exim has default configuration for spamassassin (exim4-daemon-heavy required). On earlier Debian releases, edit /etc/default/spamassassin …and then start the daemon.

Can I disable exim4?

Yes, you can remove it. Note that will also remove exim4-daemon-light or exim4-daemon-light if you still have them, that’s ok.

How do I check my Exim?

Viewing current Exim mail queue summary

1. Login to your server via SSH as the root user.
2. Run the following command to view the summary of the current Exim mail queue: exim -bp | exiqsumm | egrep -v “–|Volume|^$” | sort -bg | awk ‘{print “Volume: ” $1 ” t Domain: ” $5}’ Code breakdown: exim -bp.

What is Exim log?

Exim writes three different logs, referred to as the main log, the reject log, and the panic log: The main log records the arrival of each message and each delivery in a single line in each case. The format is as compact as possible, in an attempt to keep down the size of log files.

What is Exim documentation?

Exim Internet Mailer Exim has a set of documentation released with it. A text file of the main documentation is released as part of the Exim tar archive. Additionally, postscript and texinfo forms of the documentation are available in separate tar archives on the ftp sites. There is also a book.

How does DC use split config in exim4?

If dc_use_split_config in /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf specifies a split configuration, update-exim4.conf processes the /etc/exim4/conf.d subdirectories in the order main, acl, router, transport, retry, rewrite and auth. Within each directory it takes files in lexical sort order by file name.

What happens if I run update-exim4.conf?

If the new file is detected as invalid, update-exim4.conf leaves the old /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated untouched and exits with an error. However, there are still possible invalidities that can only be detected at run time.

How to update exim4 config in Debian Jessie?

[Default] Write output to file instead of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated. Read input from directory instead of /etc/exim4.

How to set macros in exim4 config ( 8 )?

List of IP addresses the Exim daemon should listen on. If this is left empty, Exim listens on all interfaces. Sets macro MAIN_LOCAL_INTERFACES only if there is a non-empty value. Boolean option to activate some option to minimize DNS lookups, if set to “true” a macro DC_minimaldns is defined.