1 Default MTA The default MTA in RHEL is Sendmail, however both Postfix and Exim are supported in the Mail Transport Agent Switcher 2 Installing Exim Exim can be installed from RPM, or by using the Up2date facility.
up2date exim* <enter> 3 Setting Exim as the default MTA NOTE: You will need to login as root to perform the following tasks.
To make Exim the default MTA select the following:
- Administration > Preferences > More Preferences > Mail Transport Agent Switcher.
- Choose Exim > Click OK
To make the Exim Monitor program launch at startup select the following:
- Administration > Preferences > More Preferences > Sessions > Startup Programs
Click Add > Type eximon > Click OK > Click Close Location of Exim Binaries /usr/sbin & /usr/bin
Name of Config File exim.conf
Usual Location of Config Directory /etc/exim
Usual Permissions required on Exim Binaries owner:root, group:root, permissions:755
Usual Permissions required on Config Files owner:exim, group:exim, permissions:644
Usual Spool Directory /var/spool/exim
Usual Queue Directory /var/spool/exim/input
Usual Logfile Directory /var/log/exim 4 Starting and stopping Exim Starting Exim service exim start <enter>
Stopping Exim service exim stop <enter>
Restarting Exim service exim restart <enter>
Default queue settings /etc/sysconfig/exim or /etc/sysconfig/sendmail |
