Re: Exim configuration question

["A.Sajjad Zaidi" <sajjad@example.com>]

By default, Exim sets the mail directory as /var/mail/$local_part

How can I configure it to use /var/spool/mail/user_name for this? Im not sure what
the $local_part means either.



"A.Sajjad Zaidi" wrote:

> Installed  and just ran a few tests with Exim. Was much faster than sendmail and
> nothing crashed. The bottleneck was the bandwidth and sendmail on the other mail
> server.
>
> Looks great. And thats without changing any default options. I still need to do
> more testing, but it looks almost ready.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim Tittsler wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:50:05AM +0900, A.Sajjad Zaidi wrote:
> > > > > And its very inconvenient to switch to another mailer at this point, so
> > > > > no use recommending qmail, exim etc.
> > > >
> > > > Yes and no.  If you have a problem that makes it sufficiently inconvenient
> > > > to get sendmail running, then the inconvenience of switching to a better
> > > > mailer might be more useful.
> >
> > Also note that if you are using it just to send mail, it could
> > coexist with your existing MTA.  (Although I would argue that
> > replacing Sendmail with something like Exim or Postfix is a
> > good thing to be doing anyway.)
> >
> > > Youre right about that. I did get exim working once, so how is that for this
> > > kind of problem?
> >
> > As one of the local Exim evangelists, I'd have to say "great." :-)
> >
> > The configuration file is in readable form and the
> > documentation is quite good.  There are a number of
> > configuration file and command line options that will allow you
> > to control the timing of the queuing, routing, and delivery of
> > mail. (In particular, see the sections of Exim's spec.txt
> > describing -odq* options for a synopsis.  And then ask Darren
> > and me for varying viewpoints about which is best. :-)  Also
> > don't miss the split_spool_directory option for keeping the
> > size of any one directory within reason.
> >
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