Exim 4 for Debian

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
1.1. How to find your way around the Documentation
1.2. Getting Support
1.3. Packaging
2. Configuration of Exim 4 in the Debian packages
2.1. The Configuration System
2.2. Using TLS
2.3. SMTP-AUTH
2.4. How the Exim daemon is started
2.5. Miscellaneous packaging issues
2.6. Using Exim with inetd/xinetd
2.7. Handling incoming mail for local accounts with low UID
2.8. How to bypass local routing specialities
2.9. Using more complex deliveries from alias files
2.10. Putting Exim 4 and UUCP together
2.11. Notes on running SpamAssassin at SMTP time
3. Updating from Exim 3
4. Misc Notes
4.1. PAM
4.2. Account name restrictions
4.3. No deliveries to root!
4.4. Debugging maintainer and init scripts
4.5. SELinux
4.6. misc
5. Debian modifications to the Exim source
6. Credits

1. Introduction

If you're reading this, you have found the README.Debian file. This is good, thanks! Please continue reading this file in its entirety. It is full of important information and has been written with the questions in mind that keep popping up on the mailing lists.

1.1. How to find your way around the Documentation

Exim comes with very extensive documentation. Here is how to find it.