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2
3##################################################
4# The Exim mail transport agent #
5##################################################
6
7# This is the template for Exim's main build-time configuration file. It
8# contains settings that are independent of any operating system. These are
9# things that are mostly sysadmin choices. The items below are divided into
10# those you must specify, those you probably want to specify, those you might
11# often want to specify, and those that you almost never need to mention.
12
13# Edit this file and save the result to a file called Local/Makefile within the
14# Exim distribution directory before running the "make" command.
15
16# Things that depend on the operating system have default settings in
17# OS/Makefile-Default, but these are overridden for some OS by files called
18# called OS/Makefile-<osname>. You can further override these by creating files
19# called Local/Makefile-<osname>, where "<osname>" stands for the name of your
20# operating system - look at the names in the OS directory to see which names
21# are recognized.
22
23# However, if you are building Exim for a single OS only, you don't need to
24# worry about setting up Local/Makefile-<osname>. Any build-time configuration
25# settings you require can in fact be placed in the one file called
26# Local/Makefile. It is only if you are building for several OS from the same
27# source files that you need to worry about splitting off your own OS-dependent
28# settings into separate files. (There's more explanation about how this all
29# works in the toplevel README file, under "Modifying the building process", as
30# well as in the Exim specification.)
31
32# One OS-specific thing that may need to be changed is the command for running
33# the C compiler; the overall default is gcc, but some OS Makefiles specify cc.
34# You can override anything that is set by putting CC=whatever in your
35# Local/Makefile.
36
37# NOTE: You should never need to edit any of the distributed Makefiles; all
38# overriding can be done in your Local/Makefile(s). This will make it easier
39# for you when the next release comes along.
40
41# The location of the X11 libraries is something else that is quite variable
42# even between different versions of the same operating system (and indeed
43# there are different versions of X11 as well, of course). The four settings
44# concerned here are X11, XINCLUDE, XLFLAGS (linking flags) and X11_LD_LIB
45# (dynamic run-time library). You need not worry about X11 unless you want to
46# compile the Exim monitor utility. Exim itself does not use X11.
47
48# Another area of variability between systems is the type and location of the
49# DBM library package. Exim has support for ndbm, gdbm, tdb, and Berkeley DB.
50# By default the code assumes ndbm; this often works with gdbm or DB, provided
51# they are correctly installed, via their compatibility interfaces. However,
52# Exim can also be configured to use the native calls for Berkeley DB (obsolete
53# versions 1.85, 2.x, 3.x, or the current 4.x version) and also for gdbm.
54
55# For some operating systems, a default DBM library (other than ndbm) is
56# selected by a setting in the OS-specific Makefile. Most modern OS now have
57# a DBM library installed as standard, and in many cases this will be selected
58# for you by the OS-specific configuration. If Exim compiles without any
59# problems, you probably do not have to worry about the DBM library. If you
60# do want or need to change it, you should first read the discussion in the
61# file doc/dbm.discuss.txt, which also contains instructions for testing Exim's
62# interface to the DBM library.
63
64# In Local/Makefiles blank lines and lines starting with # are ignored. It is
65# also permitted to use the # character to add a comment to a setting, for
66# example
67#
68# EXIM_GID=42 # the "mail" group
69#
70# However, with some versions of "make" this works only if there is no white
71# space between the end of the setting and the #, so perhaps it is best
72# avoided. A consequence of this facility is that it is not possible to have
73# the # character present in any setting, but I can't think of any cases where
74# this would be wanted.
75###############################################################################
76
77
78
79###############################################################################
80# THESE ARE THINGS YOU MUST SPECIFY #
81###############################################################################
82
83# Exim will not build unless you specify BIN_DIRECTORY, CONFIGURE_FILE, and
84# EXIM_USER. You also need EXIM_GROUP if EXIM_USER specifies a uid by number.
85
86# If you don't specify SPOOL_DIRECTORY, Exim won't fail to build. However, it
87# really is a very good idea to specify it here rather than at run time. This
88# is particularly true if you let the logs go to their default location in the
89# spool directory, because it means that the location of the logs is known
90# before Exim has read the run time configuration file.
91
92#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
93# BIN_DIRECTORY defines where the exim binary will be installed by "make
94# install". The path is also used internally by Exim when it needs to re-invoke
95# itself, either to send an error message, or to recover root privilege. Exim's
96# utility binaries and scripts are also installed in this directory. There is
97# no "standard" place for the binary directory. Some people like to keep all
98# the Exim files under one directory such as /usr/exim; others just let the
99# Exim binaries go into an existing directory such as /usr/sbin or
100# /usr/local/sbin. The installation script will try to create this directory,
101# and any superior directories, if they do not exist.
102
103BIN_DIRECTORY=/usr/exim/bin
104
105
106#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
107# CONFIGURE_FILE defines where Exim's run time configuration file is to be
108# found. It is the complete pathname for the file, not just a directory. The
109# location of all other run time files and directories can be changed in the
110# run time configuration file. There is a lot of variety in the choice of
111# location in different OS, and in the preferences of different sysadmins. Some
112# common locations are in /etc or /etc/mail or /usr/local/etc or
113# /usr/local/etc/mail. Another possibility is to keep all the Exim files under
114# a single directory such as /usr/exim. Whatever you choose, the installation
115# script will try to make the directory and any superior directories if they
116# don't exist. It will also install a default runtime configuration if this
117# file does not exist.
118
119CONFIGURE_FILE=/usr/exim/configure
120
121# It is possible to specify a colon-separated list of files for CONFIGURE_FILE.
122# In this case, Exim will use the first of them that exists when it is run.
123# However, if a list is specified, the installation script no longer tries to
124# make superior directories or to install a default runtime configuration.
125
126
127#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
128# The Exim binary must normally be setuid root, so that it starts executing as
129# root, but (depending on the options with which it is called) it does not
130# always need to retain the root privilege. These settings define the user and
131# group that is used for Exim processes when they no longer need to be root. In
132# particular, this applies when receiving messages and when doing remote
133# deliveries. (Local deliveries run as various non-root users, typically as the
134# owner of a local mailbox.) Specifying these values as root is very strongly
135# discouraged.
136
137EXIM_USER=
138
139# If you specify EXIM_USER as a name, this is looked up at build time, and the
140# uid number is built into the binary. However, you can specify that this
141# lookup is deferred until runtime. In this case, it is the name that is built
142# into the binary. You can do this by a setting of the form:
143
144# EXIM_USER=ref:exim
145
146# In other words, put "ref:" in front of the user name. If you set EXIM_USER
147# like this, any value specified for EXIM_GROUP is also passed "by reference".
148# Although this costs a bit of resource at runtime, it is convenient to use
149# this feature when building binaries that are to be run on multiple systems
150# where the name may refer to different uids. It also allows you to build Exim
151# on a system where there is no Exim user defined.
152
153# If the setting of EXIM_USER is numeric (e.g. EXIM_USER=42), there must
154# also be a setting of EXIM_GROUP. If, on the other hand, you use a name
155# for EXIM_USER (e.g. EXIM_USER=exim), you don't need to set EXIM_GROUP unless
156# you want to use a group other than the default group for the given user.
157
158# EXIM_GROUP=
159
160# Many sites define a user called "exim", with an appropriate default group,
161# and use
162#
163# EXIM_USER=exim
164#
165# while leaving EXIM_GROUP unspecified (commented out).
166
167
168#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
169# SPOOL_DIRECTORY defines the directory where all the data for messages in
170# transit is kept. It is strongly recommended that you define it here, though
171# it is possible to leave this till the run time configuration.
172
173# Exim creates the spool directory if it does not exist. The owner and group
174# will be those defined by EXIM_USER and EXIM_GROUP, and this also applies to
175# all the files and directories that are created in the spool directory.
176
177# Almost all installations choose this:
178
179SPOOL_DIRECTORY=/var/spool/exim
180
181
182
183###############################################################################
184# THESE ARE THINGS YOU PROBABLY WANT TO SPECIFY #
185###############################################################################
186
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187# If you need extra header file search paths on all compiles, put the -I
188# options in INCLUDE. If you want the extra searches only for certain
189# parts of the build, see more specific xxx_INCLUDE variables below.
190
191# INCLUDE=-I/example/include
192
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193# You need to specify some routers and transports if you want the Exim that you
194# are building to be capable of delivering mail. You almost certainly need at
195# least one type of lookup. You should consider whether you want to build
196# the Exim monitor or not.
197
198
199#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
200# These settings determine which individual router drivers are included in the
201# Exim binary. There are no defaults in the code; those routers that are wanted
202# must be defined here by setting the appropriate variables to the value "yes".
203# Including a router in the binary does not cause it to be used automatically.
204# It has also to be configured in the run time configuration file. By
205# commenting out those you know you don't want to use, you can make the binary
206# a bit smaller. If you are unsure, leave all of these included for now.
207
208ROUTER_ACCEPT=yes
209ROUTER_DNSLOOKUP=yes
210ROUTER_IPLITERAL=yes
211ROUTER_MANUALROUTE=yes
212ROUTER_QUERYPROGRAM=yes
213ROUTER_REDIRECT=yes
214
215# This one is very special-purpose, so is not included by default.
216
217# ROUTER_IPLOOKUP=yes
218
219
220#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
221# These settings determine which individual transport drivers are included in
222# the Exim binary. There are no defaults; those transports that are wanted must
223# be defined here by setting the appropriate variables to the value "yes".
224# Including a transport in the binary does not cause it to be used
225# automatically. It has also to be configured in the run time configuration
226# file. By commenting out those you know you don't want to use, you can make
227# the binary a bit smaller. If you are unsure, leave all of these included for
228# now.
229
230TRANSPORT_APPENDFILE=yes
231TRANSPORT_AUTOREPLY=yes
232TRANSPORT_PIPE=yes
233TRANSPORT_SMTP=yes
234
235# This one is special-purpose, and commonly not required, so it is not
236# included by default.
237
238# TRANSPORT_LMTP=yes
239
240
241#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
242# The appendfile transport can write messages to local mailboxes in a number
243# of formats. The code for three specialist formats, maildir, mailstore, and
244# MBX, is included only when requested. If you do not know what this is about,
245# leave these settings commented out.
246
247# SUPPORT_MAILDIR=yes
248# SUPPORT_MAILSTORE=yes
249# SUPPORT_MBX=yes
250
251
252#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
253# These settings determine which file and database lookup methods are included
254# in the binary. See the manual chapter entitled "File and database lookups"
255# for discussion. DBM and lsearch (linear search) are included by default. If
256# you are unsure about the others, leave them commented out for now.
257# LOOKUP_DNSDB does *not* refer to general mail routing using the DNS. It is
258# for the specialist case of using the DNS as a general database facility (not
259# common).
260
261LOOKUP_DBM=yes
262LOOKUP_LSEARCH=yes
263
264# LOOKUP_CDB=yes
265# LOOKUP_DNSDB=yes
266# LOOKUP_DSEARCH=yes
267# LOOKUP_IBASE=yes
268# LOOKUP_LDAP=yes
269# LOOKUP_MYSQL=yes
270# LOOKUP_NIS=yes
271# LOOKUP_NISPLUS=yes
272# LOOKUP_ORACLE=yes
273# LOOKUP_PASSWD=yes
274# LOOKUP_PGSQL=yes
13b685f9 275# LOOKUP_SQLITE=yes
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276# LOOKUP_WHOSON=yes
277
278# These two settings are obsolete; all three lookups are compiled when
279# LOOKUP_LSEARCH is enabled. However, we retain these for backward
280# compatibility. Setting one forces LOOKUP_LSEARCH if it is not set.
281
282# LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH=yes
283# LOOKUP_NWILDLSEARCH=yes
284
285
286#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
287# If you have set LOOKUP_LDAP=yes, you should set LDAP_LIB_TYPE to indicate
288# which LDAP library you have. Unfortunately, though most of their functions
289# are the same, there are minor differences. Currently Exim knows about four
290# LDAP libraries: the one from the University of Michigan (also known as
291# OpenLDAP 1), OpenLDAP 2, the Netscape SDK library, and the library that comes
292# with Solaris 7 onwards. Uncomment whichever of these you are using.
293
294# LDAP_LIB_TYPE=OPENLDAP1
295# LDAP_LIB_TYPE=OPENLDAP2
296# LDAP_LIB_TYPE=NETSCAPE
297# LDAP_LIB_TYPE=SOLARIS
298
299# If you don't set any of these, Exim assumes the original University of
300# Michigan (OpenLDAP 1) library.
301
302
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303#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
304# The PCRE library is required for exim. There is no longer an embedded
305# version of the PCRE library included with the source code, instead you
306# must use a system library or build your own copy of PCRE.
307# In either case you must specify the library link info here. If the
308# PCRE header files are not in the standard search path you must also
309# modify the INCLUDE path (above)
310# The default setting of PCRE_LIBS should work on the vast majority of
311# systems
312
313PCRE_LIBS=-lpcre
314
315
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316#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
317# Additional libraries and include directories may be required for some
318# lookup styles (e.g. LDAP, MYSQL or PGSQL). LOOKUP_LIBS is included only on
319# the command for linking Exim itself, not on any auxiliary programs. You
320# don't need to set LOOKUP_INCLUDE if the relevant directories are already
321# specified in INCLUDE. The settings below are just examples; -lpq is for
2050824c 322# PostgreSQL, -lgds is for Interbase, -lsqlite3 is for SQLite.
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323
324# LOOKUP_INCLUDE=-I /usr/local/ldap/include -I /usr/local/mysql/include -I /usr/local/pgsql/include
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325# LOOKUP_LIBS=-L/usr/local/lib -lldap -llber -lmysqlclient -lpq -lgds -lsqlite3
326
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327
328#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
329# Compiling the Exim monitor: If you want to compile the Exim monitor, a
330# program that requires an X11 display, then EXIM_MONITOR should be set to the
331# value "eximon.bin". Comment out this setting to disable compilation of the
332# monitor. The locations of various X11 directories for libraries and include
333# files are defaulted in the OS/Makefile-Default file, but can be overridden in
334# local OS-specific make files.
335
336EXIM_MONITOR=eximon.bin
337
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339#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
340# Compiling Exim with content scanning support: If you want to compile Exim
341# with support for message body content scanning, set WITH_CONTENT_SCAN to
342# the value "yes". This will give you malware and spam scanning in the DATA ACL,
343# and the MIME ACL. Please read the documentation to learn more about these
344# features.
345
f7b63901 346# WITH_CONTENT_SCAN=yes
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348# If you want to use the deprecated "demime" condition in the DATA ACL,
349# uncomment the line below. Doing so will also explicitly turn on the
350# WITH_CONTENT_SCAN option. If possible, use the MIME ACL instead of
351# the "demime" condition.
352
f7b63901 353# WITH_OLD_DEMIME=yes
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355#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
356# Compiling Exim with experimental features. These are documented in
357# experimental-spec.txt. "Experimental" means that the way these features are
f7b63901 358# implemented may still change. Backward compatibility is not guaranteed.
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359
360# Uncomment the following lines to add SPF support. You need to have libspf2
361# installed on your system (www.libspf2.org). Depending on where it is installed
362# you may have to edit the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS lines.
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364# EXPERIMENTAL_SPF=yes
365# CFLAGS += -I/usr/local/include
366# LDFLAGS += -lspf2
367
368# Uncomment the following lines to add SRS (Sender rewriting scheme) support.
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369# You need to have libsrs_alt installed on your system (srs.mirtol.com).
370# Depending on where it is installed you may have to edit the CFLAGS and
371# LDFLAGS lines.
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373# EXPERIMENTAL_SRS=yes
374# CFLAGS += -I/usr/local/include
375# LDFLAGS += -lsrs_alt
376
377# Uncomment the following lines to add Brightmail AntiSpam support. You need
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378# to have the Brightmail client SDK installed. Please check the experimental
379# documentation for implementation details. You need to edit the CFLAGS and
380# LDFLAGS lines.
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381
382# EXPERIMENTAL_BRIGHTMAIL=yes
383# CFLAGS += -I/opt/brightmail/bsdk-6.0/include
12cdb9e7 384# LDFLAGS += -lxml2_single -lbmiclient_single -L/opt/brightmail/bsdk-6.0/lib
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386
387
388###############################################################################
389# THESE ARE THINGS YOU MIGHT WANT TO SPECIFY #
390###############################################################################
391
392# The items in this section are those that are commonly changed according to
393# the sysadmin's preferences, but whose defaults are often acceptable. The
394# first five are concerned with security issues, where differing levels of
395# paranoia are appropriate in different environments. Sysadmins also vary in
396# their views on appropriate levels of defence in these areas. If you do not
397# understand these issues, go with the defaults, which are used by many sites.
398
399
400#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
401# Although Exim is normally a setuid program, owned by root, it refuses to run
402# local deliveries as root by default. There is a runtime option called
403# "never_users" which lists the users that must never be used for local
404# deliveries. There is also the setting below, which provides a list that
405# cannot be overridden at runtime. This guards against problems caused by
406# unauthorized changes to the runtime configuration. You are advised not to
407# remove "root" from this option, but you can add other users if you want. The
926e1192 408# list is colon-separated. It must NOT contain any spaces.
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926e1192 410# FIXED_NEVER_USERS=root:bin:daemon
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411FIXED_NEVER_USERS=root
412
413
414#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
415# By default, Exim insists that its configuration file be owned either by root
416# or by the Exim user. You can specify one additional permitted owner here.
417
418# CONFIGURE_OWNER=
419
35edf2ff 420# If the configuration file is group-writeable, Exim insists by default that it
8e669ac1 421# is owned by root or the Exim user. You can specify one additional permitted
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422# group owner here.
423
424# CONFIGURE_GROUP=
425
426# If you specify CONFIGURE_OWNER or CONFIGURE_GROUP as a name, this is looked
427# up at build time, and the uid or gid number is built into the binary.
428# However, you can specify that the lookup is deferred until runtime. In this
429# case, it is the name that is built into the binary. You can do this by a
430# setting of the form:
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432# CONFIGURE_OWNER=ref:mail
35edf2ff 433# CONFIGURE_GROUP=ref:sysadmin
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435# In other words, put "ref:" in front of the user or group name. Although this
436# costs a bit of resource at runtime, it is convenient to use this feature when
437# building binaries that are to be run on multiple systems where the names may
438# refer to different uids or gids. It also allows you to build Exim on a system
439# where the relevant user or group is not defined.
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440
441
442#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
443# The -C option allows Exim to be run with an alternate runtime configuration
444# file. When this is used by root or the Exim user, root privilege is retained
445# by the binary (for any other caller, it is dropped). You can restrict the
446# location of alternate configurations by defining a prefix below. Any file
447# used with -C must then start with this prefix (except that /dev/null is also
448# permitted if the caller is root, because that is used in the install script).
449# If the prefix specifies a directory that is owned by root, a compromise of
450# the Exim account does not permit arbitrary alternate configurations to be
451# used. The prefix can be more restrictive than just a directory (the second
452# example).
453
454# ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX=/some/directory/
455# ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX=/some/directory/exim.conf-
456
457
458#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
459# If you uncomment the following line, only root may use the -C or -D options
460# without losing root privilege. The -C option specifies an alternate runtime
461# configuration file, and the -D option changes macro values in the runtime
462# configuration. Uncommenting this line restricts what can be done with these
463# options. A call to receive a message (either one-off or via a daemon) cannot
464# successfully continue to deliver it, because the re-exec of Exim to regain
465# root privilege will fail, owing to the use of -C or -D by the Exim user.
466# However, you can still use -C for testing (as root) if you do separate Exim
467# calls for receiving a message and subsequently delivering it.
468
469# ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY=yes
470
471
472#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
473# Uncommenting this option disables the use of the -D command line option,
474# which changes the values of macros in the runtime configuration file.
475# This is another protection against somebody breaking into the Exim account.
476
477# DISABLE_D_OPTION=yes
478
479
480#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
481# Exim has support for the AUTH (authentication) extension of the SMTP
482# protocol, as defined by RFC 2554. If you don't know what SMTP authentication
483# is, you probably won't want to include this code, so you should leave these
484# settings commented out. If you do want to make use of SMTP authentication,
485# you must uncomment at least one of the following, so that appropriate code is
486# included in the Exim binary. You will then need to set up the run time
487# configuration to make use of the mechanism(s) selected.
488
489# AUTH_CRAM_MD5=yes
490# AUTH_CYRUS_SASL=yes
14aa5a05 491# AUTH_DOVECOT=yes
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493# AUTH_SPA=yes
494
495
496#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
497# If you specified AUTH_CYRUS_SASL above, you should ensure that you have the
498# Cyrus SASL library installed before trying to build Exim, and you probably
499# want to uncomment the following line:
500
501# AUTH_LIBS=-lsasl2
502
503
504#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
505# When Exim is decoding MIME "words" in header lines, most commonly for use
506# in the $header_xxx expansion, it converts any foreign character sets to the
507# one that is set in the headers_charset option. The default setting is
508# defined by this setting:
509
510HEADERS_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1"
511
512# If you are going to make use of $header_xxx expansions in your configuration
513# file, or if your users are going to use them in filter files, and the normal
514# character set on your host is something other than ISO-8859-1, you might
515# like to specify a different default here. This value can be overridden in
516# the runtime configuration, and it can also be overridden in individual filter
517# files.
518#
519# IMPORTANT NOTE: The iconv() function is needed for character code
520# conversions. Please see the next item...
521
522
523#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
524# Character code conversions are possible only if the iconv() function is
525# installed on your operating system. There are two places in Exim where this
526# is relevant: (a) The $header_xxx expansion (see the previous item), and (b)
527# the Sieve filter support. For those OS where iconv() is known to be installed
528# as standard, the file in OS/Makefile-xxxx contains
529#
530# HAVE_ICONV=yes
531#
532# If you are not using one of those systems, but have installed iconv(), you
533# need to uncomment that line above. In some cases, you may find that iconv()
534# and its header file are not in the default places. You might need to use
535# something like this:
536#
537# HAVE_ICONV=yes
538# CFLAGS=-O -I/usr/local/include
539# EXTRALIBS_EXIM=-L/usr/local/lib -liconv
540#
541# but of course there may need to be other things in CFLAGS and EXTRALIBS_EXIM
542# as well.
543
544
545#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
546# The passwords for user accounts are normally encrypted with the crypt()
547# function. Comparisons with encrypted passwords can be done using Exim's
548# "crypteq" expansion operator. (This is commonly used as part of the
549# configuration of an authenticator for use with SMTP AUTH.) At least one
550# operating system has an extended function called crypt16(), which uses up to
551# 16 characters of a password (the normal crypt() uses only the first 8). Exim
96c065cb 552# supports the use of crypt16() as well as crypt() but note the warning below.
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554# You can always indicate a crypt16-encrypted password by preceding it with
555# "{crypt16}". If you want the default handling (without any preceding
556# indicator) to use crypt16(), uncomment the following line:
557
558# DEFAULT_CRYPT=crypt16
559
560# If you do that, you can still access the basic crypt() function by preceding
561# an encrypted password with "{crypt}". For more details, see the description
562# of the "crypteq" condition in the manual chapter on string expansions.
563
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564# Some operating systems do not include a crypt16() function, so Exim has one
565# of its own, which it uses unless HAVE_CRYPT16 is defined. Normally, that will
566# be set in an OS-specific Makefile for the OS that have such a function, so
567# you should not need to bother with it.
568
569# *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING ***
570# It turns out that the above is not entirely accurate. As well as crypt16()
571# there is a function called bigcrypt() that some operating systems have. This
572# may or may not use the same algorithm, and both of them may be different to
573# Exim's built-in crypt16() that is used unless HAVE_CRYPT16 is defined.
574#
575# However, since there is now a move away from the traditional crypt()
576# functions towards using SHA1 and other algorithms, tidying up this area of
577# Exim is seen as very low priority. In practice, if you need to, you can
578# define DEFAULT_CRYPT to the name of any function that has the same interface
579# as the traditional crypt() function.
580# *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING ***
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582
583#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
584# Exim can be built to support the SMTP STARTTLS command, which implements
585# Transport Layer Security using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). To do this, you
586# must install the OpenSSL library package or the GnuTLS library. Exim contains
587# no cryptographic code of its own. Uncomment the following lines if you want
588# to build Exim with TLS support. If you don't know what this is all about,
589# leave these settings commented out.
590
591# This setting is required for any TLS support (either OpenSSL or GnuTLS)
592# SUPPORT_TLS=yes
593
594# Uncomment this setting if you are using OpenSSL
595# TLS_LIBS=-lssl -lcrypto
596
597# Uncomment these settings if you are using GnuTLS
598# USE_GNUTLS=yes
599# TLS_LIBS=-lgnutls -ltasn1 -lgcrypt
600
601# If you are running Exim as a server, note that just building it with TLS
602# support is not all you need to do. You also need to set up a suitable
603# certificate, and tell Exim about it by means of the tls_certificate
604# and tls_privatekey run time options. You also need to set tls_advertise_hosts
605# to specify the hosts to which Exim advertises TLS support. On the other hand,
606# if you are running Exim only as a client, building it with TLS support
607# is all you need to do.
608
609# Additional libraries and include files are required for both OpenSSL and
610# GnuTLS. The TLS_LIBS settings above assume that the libraries are installed
611# with all your other libraries. If they are in a special directory, you may
612# need something like
613
614# TLS_LIBS=-L/usr/local/openssl/lib -lssl -lcrypto
615# or
616# TLS_LIBS=-L/opt/gnu/lib -lgnutls -ltasn1 -lgcrypt
617
618# TLS_LIBS is included only on the command for linking Exim itself, not on any
619# auxiliary programs. If the include files are not in a standard place, you can
620# set TLS_INCLUDE to specify where they are, for example:
621
622# TLS_INCLUDE=-I/usr/local/openssl/include/
623# or
624# TLS_INCLUDE=-I/opt/gnu/include
625
626# You don't need to set TLS_INCLUDE if the relevant directories are already
627# specified in INCLUDE.
628
629
630#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
631# The default distribution of Exim contains only the plain text form of the
632# documentation. Other forms are available separately. If you want to install
633# the documentation in "info" format, first fetch the Texinfo documentation
634# sources from the ftp directory and unpack them, which should create files
635# with the extension "texinfo" in the doc directory. You may find that the
636# version number of the texinfo files is different to your Exim version number,
637# because the main documentation isn't updated as often as the code. For
638# example, if you have Exim version 4.43, the source tarball upacks into a
639# directory called exim-4.43, but the texinfo tarball unpacks into exim-4.40.
640# In this case, move the contents of exim-4.40/doc into exim-4.43/doc after you
641# have unpacked them. Then set INFO_DIRECTORY to the location of your info
642# directory. This varies from system to system, but is often /usr/share/info.
643# Once you have done this, "make install" will build the info files and
644# install them in the directory you have defined.
645
646# INFO_DIRECTORY=/usr/share/info
647
648
649#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
650# Exim log directory and files: Exim creates several log files inside a
651# single log directory. You can define the directory and the form of the
652# log file name here. If you do not set anything, Exim creates a directory
653# called "log" inside its spool directory (see SPOOL_DIRECTORY above) and uses
654# the filenames "mainlog", "paniclog", and "rejectlog". If you want to change
655# this, you can set LOG_FILE_PATH to a path name containing one occurrence of
656# %s. This will be replaced by one of the strings "main", "panic", or "reject"
657# to form the final file names. Some installations may want something like this:
658
659# LOG_FILE_PATH=/var/log/exim_%slog
660
661# which results in files with names /var/log/exim_mainlog, etc. The directory
662# in which the log files are placed must exist; Exim does not try to create
663# it for itself. It is also your responsibility to ensure that Exim is capable
664# of writing files using this path name. The Exim user (see EXIM_USER above)
665# must be able to create and update files in the directory you have specified.
666
667# You can also configure Exim to use syslog, instead of or as well as log
668# files, by settings such as these
669
670# LOG_FILE_PATH=syslog
671# LOG_FILE_PATH=syslog:/var/log/exim_%slog
672
673# The first of these uses only syslog; the second uses syslog and also writes
674# to log files. Do not include white space in such a setting as it messes up
675# the building process.
676
677
678#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
679# When logging to syslog, the following option caters for syslog replacements
680# that are able to accept log entries longer than the 1024 characters allowed
681# by RFC 3164. It is up to you to make sure your syslog daemon can handle this.
682# Non-printable characters are usually unacceptable regardless, so log entries
683# are still split on newline characters.
684
685# SYSLOG_LONG_LINES=yes
686
687# If you are not interested in the process identifier (pid) of the Exim that is
688# making the call to syslog, then comment out the following line.
689
690SYSLOG_LOG_PID=yes
691
692
693#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
694# Cycling log files: this variable specifies the maximum number of old
695# log files that are kept by the exicyclog log-cycling script. You don't have
696# to use exicyclog. If your operating system has other ways of cycling log
697# files, you can use them instead. The exicyclog script isn't run by default;
698# you have to set up a cron job for it if you want it.
699
700EXICYCLOG_MAX=10
701
702
703#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
704# The compress command is used by the exicyclog script to compress old log
705# files. Both the name of the command and the suffix that it adds to files
706# need to be defined here. See also the EXICYCLOG_MAX configuration.
707
708COMPRESS_COMMAND=/usr/bin/gzip
709COMPRESS_SUFFIX=gz
710
711
712#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
713# If the exigrep utility is fed compressed log files, it tries to uncompress
714# them using this command.
715
716ZCAT_COMMAND=/usr/bin/zcat
717
718
719#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
720# Compiling in support for embedded Perl: If you want to be able to
721# use Perl code in Exim's string manipulation language and you have Perl
722# (version 5.004 or later) installed, set EXIM_PERL to perl.o. Using embedded
723# Perl costs quite a lot of resources. Only do this if you really need it.
724
725# EXIM_PERL=perl.o
726
727
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728#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
729# Support for dynamically-loaded string expansion functions via ${dlfunc. If
730# you are using gcc the dynamically-loaded object must be compiled with the
731# -shared option, and you will need to add -export-dynamic to EXTRALIBS so
1ea70a03 732# that the local_scan API is made available by the linker. You may also need
612ba564 733# to add -ldl to EXTRALIBS so that dlopen() is available to Exim.
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735# EXPAND_DLFUNC=yes
736
737
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738#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
739# Exim has support for PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules), a facility
740# which is available in the latest releases of Solaris and in some GNU/Linux
741# distributions (see http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/). The Exim
742# support, which is intended for use in conjunction with the SMTP AUTH
743# facilities, is included only when requested by the following setting:
744
745# SUPPORT_PAM=yes
746
747# You probably need to add -lpam to EXTRALIBS, and in some releases of
748# GNU/Linux -ldl is also needed.
749
750
751#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
752# Support for authentication via Radius is also available. The Exim support,
753# which is intended for use in conjunction with the SMTP AUTH facilities,
754# is included only when requested by setting the following parameter to the
755# location of your Radius configuration file:
756
757# RADIUS_CONFIG_FILE=/etc/radiusclient/radiusclient.conf
758# RADIUS_CONFIG_FILE=/etc/radius.conf
759
760# If you have set RADIUS_CONFIG_FILE, you should also set one of these to
761# indicate which RADIUS library is used:
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763# RADIUS_LIB_TYPE=RADIUSCLIENT
7766a4f0 764# RADIUS_LIB_TYPE=RADIUSCLIENTNEW
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765# RADIUS_LIB_TYPE=RADLIB
766
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767# RADIUSCLIENT is the radiusclient library; you probably need to add
768# -lradiusclient to EXTRALIBS.
769#
770# The API for the radiusclient library was changed at release 0.4.0.
771# Unfortunately, the header file does not define a version number that clients
772# can use to support both the old and new APIs. If you are using version 0.4.0
773# or later of the radiusclient library, you should use RADIUSCLIENTNEW.
774#
775# RADLIB is the Radius library that comes with FreeBSD (the header file is
776# called radlib.h); you probably need to add -lradius to EXTRALIBS.
777#
778# If you do not set RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, Exim assumes the radiusclient library,
779# using the original API.
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781
782#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
783# Support for authentication via the Cyrus SASL pwcheck daemon is available.
784# Note, however, that pwcheck is now deprecated in favour of saslauthd (see
785# next item). The Exim support for pwcheck, which is intented for use in
786# conjunction with the SMTP AUTH facilities, is included only when requested by
787# setting the following parameter to the location of the pwcheck daemon's
788# socket.
789#
790# There is no need to install all of SASL on your system. You just need to run
791# ./configure --with-pwcheck, cd to the pwcheck directory within the sources,
792# make and make install. You must create the socket directory (default
793# /var/pwcheck) and chown it to exim's user and group. Once you have installed
794# pwcheck, you should arrange for it to be started by root at boot time.
795
796# CYRUS_PWCHECK_SOCKET=/var/pwcheck/pwcheck
797
798
799#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
800# Support for authentication via the Cyrus SASL saslauthd daemon is available.
801# The Exim support, which is intented for use in conjunction with the SMTP AUTH
802# facilities, is included only when requested by setting the following
803# parameter to the location of the saslauthd daemon's socket.
804#
805# There is no need to install all of SASL on your system. You just need to run
806# ./configure --with-saslauthd (and any other options you need, for example, to
807# select or deselect authentication mechanisms), cd to the saslauthd directory
808# within the sources, make and make install. You must create the socket
809# directory (default /var/state/saslauthd) and chown it to exim's user and
810# group. Once you have installed saslauthd, you should arrange for it to be
811# started by root at boot time.
812
813# CYRUS_SASLAUTHD_SOCKET=/var/state/saslauthd/mux
814
815
816#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
817# TCP wrappers: If you want to use tcpwrappers from within Exim, uncomment
818# this setting. See the manual section entitled "Use of tcpwrappers" in the
819# chapter on building and installing Exim.
820#
821# USE_TCP_WRAPPERS=yes
822#
823# You may well also have to specify a local "include" file and an additional
824# library for TCP wrappers, so you probably need something like this:
825#
826# USE_TCP_WRAPPERS=yes
827# CFLAGS=-O -I/usr/local/include
828# EXTRALIBS_EXIM=-L/usr/local/lib -lwrap
829#
830# but of course there may need to be other things in CFLAGS and EXTRALIBS_EXIM
831# as well.
832
833
834#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
835# The default action of the exim_install script (which is run by "make
836# install") is to install the Exim binary with a unique name such as
837# exim-4.43-1, and then set up a symbolic link called "exim" to reference it,
838# moving the symbolic link from any previous version. If you define NO_SYMLINK
839# (the value doesn't matter), the symbolic link is not created or moved. You
840# will then have to "turn Exim on" by setting up the link manually.
841
842# NO_SYMLINK=yes
843
844
845#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
846# Another default action of the install script is to install a default runtime
847# configuration file if one does not exist. This configuration has a router for
848# expanding system aliases. The default assumes that these aliases are kept
849# in the traditional file called /etc/aliases. If such a file does not exist,
850# the installation script creates one that contains just comments (no actual
851# aliases). The following setting can be changed to specify a different
852# location for the system alias file.
853
854SYSTEM_ALIASES_FILE=/etc/aliases
855
856
857#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
858# There are some testing options (-be, -bt, -bv) that read data from the
859# standard input when no arguments are supplied. By default, the input lines
860# are read using the standard fgets() function. This does not support line
861# editing during interactive input (though the terminal's "erase" character
862# works as normal). If your operating system has the readline() function, and
863# in addition supports dynamic loading of library functions, you can cause
864# Exim to use readline() for the -be testing option (only) by uncommenting the
865# following setting. Dynamic loading is used so that the library is loaded only
866# when the -be testing option is given; by the time the loading occurs,
867# Exim has given up its root privilege and is running as the calling user. This
868# is the reason why readline() is NOT supported for -bt and -bv, because Exim
869# runs as root or as exim, respectively, for those options. When USE_READLINE
870# is "yes", as well as supporting line editing, a history of input lines in the
871# current run is maintained.
872
873# USE_READLINE=yes
874
79b5812b 875# You may need to add -ldl to EXTRALIBS when you set USE_READLINE=yes.
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877# dynamic loading library is not otherwise included.
878
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880
881###############################################################################
882# THINGS YOU ALMOST NEVER NEED TO MENTION #
883###############################################################################
884
885# The settings in this section are available for use in special circumstances.
886# In the vast majority of installations you need not change anything below.
887
888
889#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
890# The following commands live in different places in some OS. Either the
891# ultimate default settings, or the OS-specific files should already point to
892# the right place, but they can be overridden here if necessary. These settings
893# are used when building various scripts to ensure that the correct paths are
894# used when the scripts are run. They are not used in the Makefile itself. Perl
895# is not necessary for running Exim unless you set EXIM_PERL (see above) to get
896# it embedded, but there are some utilities that are Perl scripts. If you
897# haven't got Perl, Exim will still build and run; you just won't be able to
898# use those utilities.
899
900# CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/bin/chown
901# CHGRP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/chgrp
902# MV_COMMAND=/bin/mv
903# RM_COMMAND=/bin/rm
904# PERL_COMMAND=/usr/bin/perl
905
906
907#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
908# The following macro can be used to change the command for building a library
909# of functions. By default the "ar" command is used, with options "cq".
910# Only in rare circumstances should you need to change this.
911
912# AR=ar cq
913
914
915#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
916# In some operating systems, the value of the TMPDIR environment variable
917# controls where temporary files are created. Exim does not make use of
918# temporary files, except when delivering to MBX mailboxes. However, if Exim
919# calls any external libraries (e.g. DBM libraries), they may use temporary
920# files, and thus be influenced by the value of TMPDIR. For this reason, when
921# Exim starts, it checks the environment for TMPDIR, and if it finds it is set,
922# it replaces the value with what is defined here. Commenting this setting
923# suppresses the check altogether.
924
925TMPDIR="/tmp"
926
927
928#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
929# The following macros can be used to change the default modes that are used
930# by the appendfile transport. In most installations the defaults are just
931# fine, and in any case, you can change particular instances of the transport
932# at run time if you want.
933
934# APPENDFILE_MODE=0600
935# APPENDFILE_DIRECTORY_MODE=0700
936# APPENDFILE_LOCKFILE_MODE=0600
937
938
939#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
940# In some installations there may be multiple machines sharing file systems,
941# where a different configuration file is required for Exim on the different
942# machines. If CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_NODE is defined, then Exim will first look
943# for a configuration file whose name is that defined by CONFIGURE_FILE,
944# with the node name obtained by uname() tacked on the end, separated by a
945# period (for example, /usr/exim/configure.host.in.some.domain). If this file
946# does not exist, then the bare configuration file name is tried.
947
948# CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_NODE=yes
949
950
951#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
952# In some esoteric configurations two different versions of Exim are run,
953# with different setuid values, and different configuration files are required
954# to handle the different cases. If CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID is defined, then
955# Exim will first look for a configuration file whose name is that defined
956# by CONFIGURE_FILE, with the effective uid tacked on the end, separated by
957# a period (for eximple, /usr/exim/configure.0). If this file does not exist,
958# then the bare configuration file name is tried. In the case when both
959# CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID and CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_NODE are set, four files
960# are tried: <name>.<euid>.<node>, <name>.<node>, <name>.<euid>, and <name>.
961
962# CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID=yes
963
964
965#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
966# The size of the delivery buffers: These specify the sizes (in bytes) of
967# the buffers that are used when copying a message from the spool to a
968# destination. There is rarely any need to change these values.
969
970# DELIVER_IN_BUFFER_SIZE=8192
971# DELIVER_OUT_BUFFER_SIZE=8192
972
973
974#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
975# The mode of the database directory: Exim creates a directory called "db"
976# in its spool directory, to hold its databases of hints. This variable
977# determines the mode of the created directory. The default value in the
978# source is 0750.
979
980# EXIMDB_DIRECTORY_MODE=0750
981
982
983#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
984# Database file mode: The mode of files created in the "db" directory defaults
985# to 0640 in the source, and can be changed here.
986
987# EXIMDB_MODE=0640
988
989
990#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
991# Database lock file mode: The mode of zero-length files created in the "db"
992# directory to use for locking purposes defaults to 0640 in the source, and
993# can be changed here.
994
995# EXIMDB_LOCKFILE_MODE=0640
996
997
998#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
999# This parameter sets the maximum length of the header portion of a message
1000# that Exim is prepared to process. The default setting is one megabyte. The
1001# limit exists in order to catch rogue mailers that might connect to your SMTP
1002# port, start off a header line, and then just pump junk at it for ever. The
1003# message_size_limit option would also catch this, but it may not be set.
1004# The value set here is the default; it can be changed at runtime.
1005
1006# HEADER_MAXSIZE="(1024*1024)"
1007
1008
1009#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1010# The mode of the input directory: The input directory is where messages are
1011# kept while awaiting delivery. Exim creates it if necessary, using a mode
1012# which can be defined here (default 0750).
1013
1014# INPUT_DIRECTORY_MODE=0750
1015
1016
1017#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1018# The mode of Exim's log directory, when it is created by Exim inside the spool
1019# directory, defaults to 0750 but can be changed here.
1020
1021# LOG_DIRECTORY_MODE=0750
1022
1023
1024#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1025# The log files themselves are created as required, with a mode that defaults
1026# to 0640, but which can be changed here.
1027
1028# LOG_MODE=0640
1029
1030
1031#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1032# The TESTDB lookup is for performing tests on the handling of lookup results,
1033# and is not useful for general running. It should be included only when
1034# debugging the code of Exim.
1035
1036# LOOKUP_TESTDB=yes
1037
1038
1039#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1040# /bin/sh is used by default as the shell in which to run commands that are
1041# defined in the makefiles. This can be changed if necessary, by uncommenting
1042# this line and specifying another shell, but note that a Bourne-compatible
1043# shell is expected.
1044
1045# MAKE_SHELL=/bin/sh
1046
1047
1048#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1049# The maximum number of named lists of each type (address, domain, host, and
1050# local part) can be increased by changing this value. It should be set to
1051# a multiple of 16.
1052
1053# MAX_NAMED_LIST=16
1054
1055
1056#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1057# Network interfaces: Unless you set the local_interfaces option in the runtime
1058# configuration file to restrict Exim to certain interfaces only, it will run
1059# code to find all the interfaces there are on your host. Unfortunately,
1060# the call to the OS that does this requires a buffer large enough to hold
1061# data for all the interfaces - it was designed in the days when a host rarely
1062# had more than three or four interfaces. Nowadays hosts can have very many
1063# virtual interfaces running on the same hardware. If you have more than 250
1064# virtual interfaces, you will need to uncomment this setting and increase the
1065# value.
1066
1067# MAXINTERFACES=250
1068
1069
1070#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1071# Per-message logs: While a message is in the process of being delivered,
1072# comments on its progress are written to a message log, for the benefit of
1073# human administrators. These logs are held in a directory called "msglog"
1074# in the spool directory. Its mode defaults to 0750, but can be changed here.
1075# The message log directory is also used for storing files that are used by
1076# transports for returning data to a message's sender (see the "return_output"
1077# option for transports).
1078
1079# MSGLOG_DIRECTORY_MODE=0750
1080
1081
1082#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1083# There are three options which are used when compiling the Perl interface and
1084# when linking with Perl. The default values for these are placed automatically
1085# at the head of the Makefile by the script which builds it. However, if you
1086# want to override them, you can do so here.
1087
1088# PERL_CC=
1089# PERL_CCOPTS=
1090# PERL_LIBS=
1091
1092
1093#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1094# Identifying the daemon: When an Exim daemon starts up, it writes its pid
1095# (process id) to a file so that it can easily be identified. The path of the
1096# file can be specified here. Some installations may want something like this:
1097
1098# PID_FILE_PATH=/var/lock/exim.pid
1099
1100# If PID_FILE_PATH is not defined, Exim writes a file in its spool directory
1101# using the name "exim-daemon.pid".
1102
1103# If you start up a daemon without the -bd option (for example, with just
1104# the -q15m option), a pid file is not written. Also, if you override the
1105# configuration file with the -oX option, no pid file is written. In other
1106# words, the pid file is written only for a "standard" daemon.
1107
1108
1109#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1110# If Exim creates the spool directory, it is given this mode, defaulting in the
1111# source to 0750.
1112
1113# SPOOL_DIRECTORY_MODE=0750
1114
1115
1116#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1117# The mode of files on the input spool which hold the contents of messages can
1118# be changed here. The default is 0640 so that information from the spool is
1119# available to anyone who is a member of the Exim group.
1120
1121# SPOOL_MODE=0640
1122
1123
1124#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1125# Moving frozen messages: If the following is uncommented, Exim is compiled
1126# with support for automatically moving frozen messages out of the main spool
1127# directory, a facility that is found useful by some large installations. A
1128# run time option is required to cause the moving actually to occur. Such
1129# messages become "invisible" to the normal management tools.
1130
1131# SUPPORT_MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES=yes
1132
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1134#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1135# Disabling the use of fsync(): DO NOT UNCOMMENT THE FOLLOWING LINE unless you
1136# really, really, really know what you are doing. And even then, think again.
1137# You should never uncomment this when compiling a binary for distribution.
1138# Use it only when compiling Exim for your own use.
1139#
1140# Uncommenting this line enables the use of a runtime option called
1141# disable_fsync, which can be used to stop Exim using fsync() to ensure that
1142# files are written to disc before proceeding. When this is disabled, crashes
1143# and hardware problems such as power outages can cause data to be lost. This
1144# feature should only be used in very exceptional circumstances. YOU HAVE BEEN
1145# WARNED.
1146
1147# ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC=yes
1148
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