[plug] exim 3 -> exim 4 update

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:41:01 +0800 (WST), Shayne O'Neill
<shayne at guild.murdoch.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> Hey all. 2 of the servers I admin run exim 3. Its an otherwise fantastic
> little MTA and I've basically got it worked out.
> 
> However it doesnt 'do' spamassassin or virus checkers in any simple way I
> can discern.
> 
> Now the servers both run mailman installs also, lots of mailboxes, some
> accessed thru imap, some thru pop, some thu pine and some thru webmail via
> imap.
> 
> Mailboxes DO occasionally seem to end up in various odd places (home
> directories OR mail directories) and I've never quite worked the pattern
> out, nor do I really care, because it just works.
> 
> However I'd like to upgrade to exim 4 to get those 'nice' features I
> really need.
> 
> Any suggestions on how easy this is likely to be. Is it a complete horror?
> Should I consider something else?

I did it a couple of months back and it was very straight forward.
Just apt-get and a few questions and it all worked pretty well. It's
just a small setup with three users and two domains. But I didn't have
to do anything 'user' specific.

I don't think I even asked you guys for help it was that simple.  :)

> 
> The guild server has perhaps 80 mailboxes, so having to tweak settings for
> each user is really out of the question.
> 
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Regards,
Russ