[svlug] Exim configuration and tuning

[J C Lawrence]

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 19:08:25 +0300 
Ira Abramov <lists-svlug at ira.abramov.org> wrote:

> well, I'm taking the dive. the server desperately needed an upgrade
> from potato to Woody, and I'm moving it from its weird config that ran
> over 3.12 to 3.25. I am also redoing the config file, basing it on the
> default one given by the eximconf tool supplied in Debian.

> Quoting Marc MERLIN, from the post of Thu, 19 Sep:
>> # This creates 62 subdirs in /var/spool/exim/input to allow for
>> better disk # performance split_spool_directory = true

> this was not even mentioned as commented. added, thanks!

There are quite a few useful options not mentioned in the default
exim.conf.

> lots of the syntax seems to be very different. I see in the old files
> sections for ROUTERS and in the new file it's called DIRECTORS, only
> the stanzas between them seem to have intermixed, and the syntax,
> again, is quite different...

I suspect you are reading the docs for Exim v4 when you have v3
installed.  Woody, runs Exim v3.  I'd also recommend grabbing a copy of
Exim from /testing as there are few useful differences that haven't made
their way into /woody as of last I checked.

> I have a feeling that the manual on exim.org is out of sync with the
> app itself...

This happened occasionally, but never for more than a day or two that
I've seen yet.

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