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The following documentation has been installed:

    info 'Exim Overview'	-> Overview of Exim
    info Exim			-> Exim Specification (User Guide)
    info 'Exim Filtering'	-> Exim Filter Specification (for end-users)

In addition, plain text versions of these documents have been installed
as:

    ${PREFIX}/share/doc/exim/oview.txt
    ${PREFIX}/share/doc/exim/filter.txt
    ${PREFIX}/share/doc/exim/spec.txt

Postscript, PDF and HTML versions of these documents are available in
the ports tree as:

    ports/mail/exim-doc-postscript
    ports/mail/exim-doc-pdf
    ports/mail/exim-doc-html

In addition, a comprehensive FAQ list is available at:

    http://www.exim.org/

To run Exim instead of sendmail on startup:

1) Create exim/configure from exim/configure.default .
2) Stop the sendmail daemon.
3) Adjust mailer.conf(5) and set 'sendmail_enable' and 'sendmail_flags'
   as appropriate in rc.conf(5).
4) Start exim with appropriate command-line options.

However, if Exim is linked against 3rd-party libraries that are not in
the standard library search path (such as MySQL), then it should be
started with ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d/exim.sh, after said library support is
enabled through its own startup script.

You may also want to configure newsyslog(8) to rotate Exim log files:

/var/log/exim/mainlog	mailnull:mail 640 7 * @T00 Z
/var/log/exim/rejectlog	mailnull:mail 640 7 * @T00 Z