exim instead of postfix

[Tony Arnold]

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 18:56 +0100, Christophe Roux wrote:
> I installed exim3 instead of postfix.
> I tried to stop exim3 :
> /etc/init.d/exim stop
> but after I can send mails locally.
> What happens?

To send mail using exim, your mail client will invoke the exim image and
if it can deliver immediately it will do so.

You only need to run exim as a daemon (by starting it with the init.d
script) if exim needs to queue outgoing mail or if you want to listen
for incoming mail from the network.

Regards,
Tony.
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