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| author | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2014-08-18 15:57:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2014-08-18 15:57:43 +0100 |
| commit | 1f964b3e67399ae4e9c6b522950bf7ea967cd267 (patch) | |
| tree | c5608b9de45be293c404c509e7a5ae3cceec1feb /docs | |
| parent | 7a7bac68f57e8800135a1513c484619245fa69b9 (diff) | |
Add more detail to the different parts of the delivery process in exim
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/installing/email.md | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/installing/email.md b/docs/installing/email.md index 92980f7bb..87915315f 100644 --- a/docs/installing/email.md +++ b/docs/installing/email.md @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Setting `extract_addresses_remove_arguments` to `false` gets exim to treat the ` In this section, we'll add config to pipe incoming mail for special Alaveteli addresses into Alaveteli, and also send them to a local backup -mailbox, just in case. Create the `backupfoi` UNIX user, and then create `/etc/exim4/conf.d/router/04_alaveteli`: +mailbox, just in case. Create the `backupfoi` UNIX user, and then create `/etc/exim4/conf.d/router/04_alaveteli` to specify an exim `router` for special Alaveteli addresses, which will route messages into Alaveteli using a local pipe transport: cat > /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/04_alaveteli <<'EOF' alaveteli_request: @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ mailbox, just in case. Create the `backupfoi` UNIX user, and then create `/etc/e pipe_transport = alaveteli_mailin_transport EOF -Create `/etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/04_alaveteli`: +Create `/etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/04_alaveteli`, which sets the properties of the pipe `transport` that will deliver mail to Alaveteli: cat > /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/04_alaveteli <<'EOF' alaveteli_mailin_transport: @@ -186,10 +186,11 @@ Create `/etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/04_alaveteli`: group = ALAVETELI_USER EOF -And, assuming you set -[`INCOMING_EMAIL_PREFIX`]({{ site.baseurl }}docs/customising/config/#incoming_email_prefix) -in your config at `config/general.yml` to "foi+", create `config/aliases` with the following -command: +And, assuming you set [`INCOMING_EMAIL_PREFIX`]({{ site.baseurl }}docs/customising/config/#incoming_email_prefix) in your config at +`config/general.yml` to "foi+", create `config/aliases` with the +following command. This defines the special addresses that the `router` +and `transport` will apply to with a regular expression. It also defines +the pipe command to be used: cat > /var/www/alaveteli/config/aliases <<'EOF' ^foi\\+.*: "|/var/www/alaveteli/script/mailin", backupfoi |