Exim Training

Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet. It is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence. There is a great deal of flexibility in the way mail can be routed, and there are extensive facilities for checking incoming mail. Exim can be installed in place of sendmail, although the configuration of exim is quite different to that of sendmail.

credativ provides training on Exim Administration covering the following topics:

Introduction to Exim

  • project history and resources

Installation on Debian

  • Debian configuration choices

  • overview of configuration files

Configuration as a primary MX

  • local users

  • mail aliases

  • virtual domains

Configuration as a secondary MX

  • mail relaying

  • transports

Monitoring

  • log files

  • Exim utilities

  • SSL/TLS certificates on Debian

  • configuring in Exim

Mail filtering

  • content filtering with SpamAssassin

  • greylisting principles and techni


Training courses are available for the projects that credativ supports. Our material is created and delivered by our in house team, who themselves are experts in working with and supporting the software that the training course covers.

Course participants gain a thorough grounding in the software itself and hands on experience working through our practical exercises. Our course material is modular, allowing us to adjust the course programme to cover the topics which are most relevant to participants.

For more information about our Exim training or to request a sample course outline, please visit our contact form.

Other Exim services

You may also be interested in our Exim support and consultancy services.

See our main training page for details of our other training courses.

See also