Re: Qmail-- Exim

[Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:47:37PM -0700, Brian Longwe wrote:
> 'nother question:
> 
> how easy is it to transition from sendmail to exim?

Certainly easier than to qmail.

Out of the box, exim supports aliases and .forward files.

For mailertable, you add a domainlist router. The format of the table is
slightly different.

For access.db, you probably want to set hosts_accept_relay (which IP
addresses we allow relaying _from_) and relay_domains (which domains we
allow relaying _to_). Other types of access.db entries can be implemented
using other exim policy settings, although these are rarely used.

I don't know what you mean by 'sendmail.db'

> ....and a requiremen to maintain virtusertable

I've never used sendmail and virtusertable. I think it has entries of the
form:

user1 at domain1:   user2

That is easily done in exim using an additional aliasfile director with the
'include_domain' setting.

Entries of the form

     at domain1:    %1 at domain2

will have to be rewritten as:

    * at domain1:   $local_part at domain2

Give some examples of the files you're trying to implement, and we can build
an updated config for you on this list...

Cheers,

Brian.

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