Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) which is used to transfer emails between computers. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Exim on Arch Linux.
The first step in installing Exim is to update your system with the latest packages. To do this, open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo pacman -Syu
To install Exim, run the following command:
sudo pacman -S exim
This command will install Exim along with its dependencies.
After installing Exim, you need to configure it. Exim provides a script exim-install which helps you to generate a default configuration file.
To generate the default configuration file, run the following command:
sudo exim-install
This command will generate the default configuration file at /etc/exim/exim.conf. You can open this file in any text editor and modify it according to your needs.
To start Exim, run the following command:
sudo systemctl start exim
If you want Exim to start at boot time, run the following command:
sudo systemctl enable exim
To verify that Exim is running, you can use the following command:
sudo systemctl status exim
This command will show you the status of Exim.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Exim on Arch Linux. Now you can use Exim to transfer emails between computers.
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