On Sat, 2021-04-03 at 12:09 -0400, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote:
> Anyone using exim?
>
> I have found that exim in the blfs 10.1 book is incomplete.
>
> I have been using the exim build from blfs-9.0 and it is much different
> than 10.1,
>
> exim-4.92 vs exim-4.94. the only thing that has changed in the newer
> version is TLS is now required to build the package.
>
> The log files are not in /var./log and the logrotate script is missing
>
> The pid file is also not in /run and is not called exim.pid
>
>
> Here is my configuration from the rpm spec file that makes it work
>
> Prep="%setup -q -n %{name}-%{version}
> %setup -q -T -D -a 1 -n %{name}-%{version}
>
> cp src/EDITME Local/Makefile
> printf 'USE_GDBM=yes\nDBMLIB=-lgdbm\n' >> Local/Makefile
> sed 's,^EXIM_USER.*$,EXIM_USER=exim,' -i Local/Makefile
> sed 's,^BIN_DIR.*$,BIN_DIRECTORY=/usr/sbin,' -i Local/Makefile
> sed 's,^CONF.*$,CONFIGURE_FILE=/etc/mail/exim.conf,' -i Local/Makefile
> sed 's,^EXIM_MONITOR,#EXIM_MONITOR,' -i Local/Makefile
> sed 's,^#
> LOG_FILE_PATH=/var/log/exim_%slog,LOG_FILE_PATH=/var/log/exim_%s.log,'
> -i Local/Makefile
> sed 's,^# PID_FILE_PATH=/var/lock/exim.pid,PID_FILE_PATH=/run/exim.pid,'
> -i Local/Makefile
> sed 's,^# DISABLE_DKIM=yes, DISABLE_DKIM=yes,' -i Local/Makefile
>
> # Other
> # sed '/# SUPPORT_MAILDIR/s,^#,,' -i Local/Makefile
> # sed '/# AUTH_PLAINTEXT/s,^#,,' -i Local/Makefile plain text
> authentication
> # sed '/# AUTH_DOVECOT/s,^#,,' -i Local/Makefile dovecot text
> authentication
> # sed '/# HAVE_IPV6/s,^#,,' -i Local/Makefile ipv6 support
>
> echo 'EDITME Parameters'
> cat Local/Makefile
> echo ''
> "
>
> Build='%{make_build}'
>
>
> I made the sed separate so I can "turn on" of "turn off" support more easily
>
I agree the exim page needs some love. I found myself struggling to make a
working configuration. I found also that google is not very helpful, because
most of the users are with debian, and debian has a lot of helpers for exim,
which are not available in upstream exim...
I agree the parameters you propose should be added. Also we should recommend a
few AUTH mechanisms (at least the PLAIN one). My ISP wants authentication, and I
guess a lot of others too.
We could propose a sample configuration for sending through an ISP: I guess this
is what most people would need.
Thoughts?
Pierre
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