bobg.hahc@gmail.com wrote:
> analogy - when I setup sendmail; I'm working with BASH scripts.

When you setup sendmail, you're not dealing with a bash script, you're
dealing with a configuration file that tells sendmail how to run.


> what exactly IS an exim conf file?
> is this a perl script? or some custom language specific to exim?

The exim.conf file is the configuration file for exim. It's not bash
nor perl -- it's a configuration file specific to exim and it's based on
configuration "directives" that is very similar to the Apache
configuration file.

If you're coming from the DOS/Windows world, think of a configuration
file like you would your win.ini or system.ini file or whatnot.

- Ken