X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim-website.git/blobdiff_plain/4bec300304fbfa4a6881b15145437ddaef530acd..127d240a46dd1d7dd6a596d50bf4da3d4617284f:/overview.html diff --git a/overview.html b/overview.html index e3fbefc..281d0b4 100644 --- a/overview.html +++ b/overview.html @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ interest to them, its limitations are listed first.
  • Exim is intended for use as an Internet mailer, and therefore handles addresses in RFC 822 domain format only. It cannot handle 'bang paths', - though simple two-component bang paths can be converted by a straightforward + though simple two-component bang paths can be converted by a straightforward rewriting configuration.
  • Exim insists that every address it handles has a domain attached. For @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ interest to them, its limitations are listed first.
  • The only external transport currently implemented is an SMTP transport over a TCP/IP network (using sockets), suitable for machines on the - Internet. However, a pipe transport is available, and there are facilities + Internet. However, a pipe transport is available, and there are facilities for writing messages to files in 'batched SMTP' format; this can be used to send messages to some other transport mechanism. Batched SMTP input is also catered for. @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ follows:

    Exim can be configured to allow users to set up filter files as an alternative -to the traditional .forward files. A filter file can test various characteristics +to the traditional .forward files. A filter file can test various characteristics of a message, including the contents of the headers and the start of the body, and direct delivery to specified addresses, files, or pipes according to what it finds. The system-wide filter file uses the same control @@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ mean that portion of an address that comes before the @ character.

    and it is possible to specify an error address for each list that depends - on the list name. Generated pipe and file addresses can be (independently) + on the list name. Generated pipe and file addresses can be (independently) locked out.