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Exim Specification

@set{wmYear} 2003 @set{wmAuthor} Philip Hazel @set{wmAuthor_email} <ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk> @set{COPYRIGHT1} Copyright © No value for wmYear University of Cambridge

The Exim Mail Transfer Agent
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The specification of the Exim Mail Transfer Agent is converted mechanically into Texinfo format from its original marked-up source. Some typographic representations are changed, chapters and sections cannot be numbered, and Texinfo lacks the ability to mark updated parts of the specification with change bars.

Because the chapters and sections are unnumbered, cross references are set to their names. This makes the English a bit odd, with phrases like `see chapter "Retry configuration"' but it seemed very cumbersome to change this to `see the chapter entitled "Retry configuration"' each time.

Each chapter, section, and configuration option has been placed in a separate Texinfo node. Texinfo doesn't allow commas, colons, or apostrophes in node names, which is a rather nasty restriction. I have arranged not to use colons or apostrophes in section titles, but cannot bring myself to omit them from titles such as "The foo, bar and baz commands". For the corresponding node names I have just used multiple occurrences of "and", though it looks very ugly.

If a chapter or section continues after a list of configuration options that is not in a new section, a new node is started, using the chapter's or section's name plus `(continued)'. The `Up' operation from a section or configuration option returns to the start of the current chapter; the `Up' operation at a chapter start returns to the top of the document; the `Up' in a list of configuration options within a section returns to the top of that section.

A number of drivers have options with the same name, so they have been disambiguated by adding the name of the driver to its option names in order to create node names. Thus, for example, the specification of the `command' options of the `lmtp' and `pipe' transports are in nodes called `command (lmtp)' and `command (pipe)', respectively.


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