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Old 01-19-2008, 08:42 AM
bobg.hahc@gmail.com
 
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Default exim - an idiot question - what runs it?

analogy - when I setup sendmail; I'm working with BASH scripts.

what exactly IS an exim conf file?
is this a perl script? or some custom language specific to exim?
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Old 03-07-2008, 02:28 PM
Ken Teague
 
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Default Re: exim - an idiot question - what runs it?

bobg.hahc@gmail.com wrote:
> analogy - when I setup sendmail; I'm working with BASH scripts.


When you setup sendmail, you're not dealing with a bash script, you're
dealing with a configuration file that tells sendmail how to run.


> what exactly IS an exim conf file?
> is this a perl script? or some custom language specific to exim?


The exim.conf file is the configuration file for exim. It's not bash
nor perl -- it's a configuration file specific to exim and it's based on
configuration "directives" that is very similar to the Apache
configuration file.

If you're coming from the DOS/Windows world, think of a configuration
file like you would your win.ini or system.ini file or whatnot.

- Ken
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