The following documentation has been installed: man exim -> Exim options (command line) %%DOCSDIR%%/spec.txt -> Exim Specification (User Guide) %%DOCSDIR%%/filter.txt -> Exim Filter Specification (for end-users) Postscript, PDF, HTML and texinfo versions of these documents can be installed via one of the mail/exim-doc-* ports. An online version as well as a comprehensive FAQ and a mailing list archive is available at: http://www.exim.org/ Descriptions of new features not available it the manual, and a listing of all changes, including bug fixes are documented in: %%DOCSDIR%%/NewStuff %%DOCSDIR%%/ChangeLog To use Exim instead of sendmail on startup: *) Clear the sendmail queue and stop the sendmail daemon. *) Adjust mailer.conf(5) as appropriate. *) Set the 'sendmail_enable' rc.conf(5) variable to 'NONE'. *) Set the 'daily_status_include_submit_mailq' and 'daily_clean_hoststat_enable' periodic.conf(5) variables to 'NO'. *) Consider setting 'daily_queuerun_enable' and 'daily_submit_queuerun' to "NO" in periodic.conf(5), if you intend to manage queue runners / deliveries closely. *) Set the 'exim_enable' rc.conf(5) variable to 'YES'. *) Start exim with '%%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d/exim start'. You may also want to configure newsyslog(8) to rotate Exim log files: %%LOGDIR%%/mainlog mailnull:mail 640 7 * @T00 ZN %%LOGDIR%%/rejectlog mailnull:mail 640 7 * @T00 ZN Additional scripts to help upgrading are installed in: %%EXAMPLESDIR%%