CentOS - Feb 2010 - Exim installation on CentOS

Could someone please share some thoughts on how to set up the /etc/hosts and
/etc/aliases? This is tough to set up due to the poorly written manual.

james Tanit wrote:
> Could someone please share some thoughts on how to set up the /etc/hosts
and /etc/aliases? This is tough to set up due to the poorly written manual.
>   
under normal circumstances, /etc/hosts should have only two entries.   
the exception to this may be if you're using NFS, then hosts should have 
any NFS clients and servers names (unless you do your NFS mounts by IP 
address, something I don't really recommend).


    127.0.0.1                      localhost localhost.localdomain
    xxx.yyy.zzz.www       hostname hostname.domainname.com


/etc/aliases would contain any email aliases you want, for instance, if 
you want all mail to root to go to local account jamest...

    root:      jamest



there's usually a bunch of sorta stock aliases, like postmaster, etc, 
these usually go to root, which in turn you forward to whomever.

James Tanit wrote on Sun, 7 Feb 2010 13:09:11 -0800 (PST):
> Could someone please share some thoughts on how to set up the /etc/hosts
> and /etc/aliases? This is tough to set up due to the poorly written
> manual.
If you do not know Exim and it is poorly documented (just repeating your 
words, I don't know if that is true) - why do you want to use it then? 
It's not the default MTA on CentOS.


Kai

-- 
Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com