[svlug] Adding users to exim

[Rafael Skodlar]

Skip Evans wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I am developing a site for a new client that is 
> hosted on a FC4 server running exim. ('which exim' 
> shows /usr/sbin/exim, not exim4 or something like 
> that.)
> 

Of course, exim4 is debian silliness that screws up any script you might
have written to handle exim but otherwise works like sendmail.

> I have been googling and reading all day and for 
> the life of me I can't find out how to simply add 

Huh?

> users to exim so that they can receive email and 
> log in with their mail clients to get email!!!

Logging in with MUA to pickup email has nothing to do with Exim (MTA)
directly. For getting email I recommend dovecot.

> 
> At this moment I am feeling like a complete dolt. 
> I have read through more exim documentation than I 
> thought I ever would, but can find no docs about 
> adding users.
> 

Google "adding users to exim" yields among other:
http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20041115/msg00127.html
http://silverwraith.com/vexim/
http://www.tty1.net/virtual_domains_en.html

http://www.exim.org has anything you need to know. Examples are
sprinkled all over the internet just need (learn) to search.

> I've done this with sendmail gallons of times, but 
> exim has me baffled.
> 

Exim is an excellent replacement, for what should be long time obsolete
sendmail, so it would work with any OS user just like sendmail. Adding
users to passwd file will do it. If that's not the way you want it, then
read pages from the above links.

Here is a list of some links I used in the past. Don't guarantee they
are all active:

http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/Exim-SpamAndVirusScanning.pdf
http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/exim.php
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Spam-Filtering-for-MX/
http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris Vmail, tpop3d
http://talk.trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles/exim_maildir_imap.shtml
http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting
http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/FastGrayListMiniTutorial   greylisting

Adding users to accept email is easy. It gets complicated when you use
virtual users without OS account, which is more secure by the way.
What's even harder is to provide means for them to change their password.

> If anyone can point me in a more production 
> direction than the circles I've been running in it 
> will be most, most appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!

-- 
Rafael Skodlar