Novice Exim user wants to set up a mailing list

[Brian E. Lavender]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 06:29:37PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2024-02-19 Landon via Pkg-exim4-users <pkg-exim4-users at alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:
> [...]
> > So... How difficult is it to set this up for someone who knows
> > virtually nothing about Exim?
> > Is there an up to date guide somewhere on how to configure Exim to do this?
> > I don't mind reading about how to set this up, but I also don't want
> > to have to read a 500 page book to figure it out.

Usually, I start with enough to get myself into trouble. I used to
reference this site that the author took down probably because he spent
too much time answering questions.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120312154025/http://koivi.com/exim4-config/

Then you start reading the docs to figure out how to dig yourself out of
the hole.

https://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/

Then once you have tried to resolve your issue and it just doesn't seem
to work, the mailing list can be a big asset.

> 
> Hello,
> 
> Nowadays running a mail server especially with mailing lists is really
> quite complicated. It is not an exim specific problem. If you generally
> knew what standard compliance and settings were necessary to run a mail
> server in a way that e.g. google accepts the mail and does not mark it
> as spam (e.g. with postfix) this knowledge would probably translate
> quite well to exim, its documentation is still good.
> cu Andreas

I have yet to configure DMARC. 
https://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-dkim_spf_srs_and_dmarc.html

It's on my TODO list.

I have never relayed through Google...., yet it sounds doable. 

Brian
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