The largest hurdle that you are going to face is getting smail off of your system so you can install exim. You are going to need to force dpkg to remove this essential package.
I would wait a little while, the package in unstable is much better than the one in stable and a new upstream source release was just announced this week. On 10-Dec-97 Kevin Traas wrote: > I'm looking to convert from smail to exim for various reasons.... > > Anyway, I've no experience with exim. Can anyone give me any pointers on > how to proceed with this particular "roll-over" or let me know of any docs > I can RTFM, etc. Any caveats, things to watch for, etc. would be helpful. > > TIA, > Kevin Traas > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .