X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim-website.git/blobdiff_plain/4bec300304fbfa4a6881b15145437ddaef530acd..6bc094771cb3ac2e80fb8669432dde5cf3740c8d:/overview.html diff --git a/overview.html b/overview.html index e3fbefc..62dfa59 100644 --- a/overview.html +++ b/overview.html @@ -23,19 +23,6 @@ for refusing messages from particular hosts, networks, or senders. Exim is in production use on a number of sites that move tens of thousands of messages per day. This document contains an overview description of the way Exim works, with a certain amount of simplification to keep it fairly short. -Please address any enquiries about Exim to Philip Hazel: - -

-Email: <ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
-Phone: +44 1223 334714
-Fax: +44 1223 334679 - -

-University of Cambridge
-Computer Laboratory
-Pembroke Street
-Cambridge CB2 3QG
-United Kingdom

This document is copyright (c) University of Cambridge 1996, but copying @@ -107,7 +94,7 @@ 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 +104,7 @@ 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 +345,7 @@ 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 +396,7 @@ 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.