exim for DEBIAN --------------- Exim will install by default to run from inetd.conf. To instead run exim as a daemon: 1. Disable the entry in /etc/inetd.conf. The startup script (/etc/init.d/exim) will notice this and start a daemon 2. You might want to change the contents of /etc/cron.d/exim since the queue will be run from the daemon instead EXIM_GID is compiled in as 8, the mail group, so any mail administrators should be added to this group in order to be able to look into the spool and manipulate messages. The following is an example of what you can do with .forward files in exim; you might find it useful. It matches any of the debian mailing lists and saves mails from them in appropriate mailboxes: # Exim filter if $h_x-mailing-list matches "^<debian-(.*)@lists\\\\.debian\\\\.org>" then seen save $home/Mail/debian/$1 endif The config file written by eximconfig includes a feature where you can set the email address used for outgoing emails on a per-user basis by editing /etc/email-addresses.