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Edit: This doesn’t work anymore I don’t think, because more modern versions check for SMTP conflicts and don’t allow this.
When you’re installing zimbra in an Ubuntu or Debian machine, it seems it installs the MTA in such a way that command line tools like mail and such don’t work. But when you install exim, it conflicts with the postfix in Zimbra.
To fix it, you can install exim4, but configure this line in /etc/default/exim4:
QUEUERUNNER='queueonly'
I wanted an Exim server which could send mail on its own without the use of another SMTP server.
First see this for some general explantion.
I used this config file:
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf # # Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf # yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' # # Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes # to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local # changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess # around with multiple versions of the file. # # update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to generate # exim configuration macros for the configuration file. # # Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the # Debconf configuration, but not all of them. # # This is a Debian specific file dc_eximconfig_configtype='internet' dc_other_hostnames='existingdomain.com' dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1' dc_readhost='' dc_relay_domains='' dc_minimaldns='false' dc_relay_nets='' dc_smarthost='' CFILEMODE='644' dc_use_split_config='false' dc_hide_mailname='' dc_mailname_in_oh='true' dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
Also remember to put that existingdomain.com in /etc/mailname.
A very common way to configure Exim on a Debian machine, is to make it a ‘satellite’; a server which uses another SMTP server for sending and does not do local delivery, the latter being the difference with a ‘smarthost’. It can be used by other computers in the network to send mail, but also by the machine itself, to send system notifications and such (one of my favorite apps, arpwatch, for example).
The following needs to be in /etc/update-exim4.conf:
dc_eximconfig_configtype='satellite' dc_other_hostnames='[mailname]' dc_local_interfaces='' dc_readhost='' dc_relay_domains='*' dc_minimaldns='false' dc_relay_nets='' dc_smarthost='[your SMTP server]' CFILEMODE='644' dc_use_split_config='false' dc_hide_mailname='false' dc_mailname_in_oh='true' dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
The following needs to be in /etc/mailname:
[mailname]
[mailname] is the same in both locations, and is simply the FQDN (world wide, not just local, such as bla.net) which should appear after the @-sign. The reason that it must entered in both places, is because both have a different function. ‘etc/mailname’ Takes care of putting the specified domain after the @-sign if you mail to, for example, root. The ‘dc_other_hostnames’ is to let the server know that this is the machine that handles that domain. If you don’t specify the ‘dc_other_hostnames’, the server will just try to send it to the next relay. BTW, ‘dc_other_hostnames’ is colon (;) seperated.
Make sure the FQDN you use exists, otherwise a lot of mailservers refuse to accept it. What I don’t understand, though, is that in my experience, whatever you use as domain doesn’t have to exist as MX record, but just as an A record.
Also don’t forget to include an alias for root in /etc/aliases. I usually let all mail sent to root be sent to a local user, and alias that local user to an outside e-mail address.
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