Re: [RFC] Exim as standard Debian MTA?
jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Jason Gunthorpe) wrote on 27.08.98 in <Pine.LNX.3.96.980827231331.3774I-100000@Wakko.ualberta.ca>:
> On 27 Aug 1998, Jim Pick wrote:
>
> > > On Aug 26, Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >It seems like everybody agrees on switching to exim, but nothing as
> > > >been
> > > I don't think so.
> > >
> > > >Would anyone object if I send bug reports requesting to lower smail's
> > > >priority to "extra" and raise exim's to "important" (ie: the contrary
> > > >of the current situation)?
> > > Yes, I would. Please wait next month for the public release of vmailer.
> >
> > I've used vmailer (pre-release) and exim.
> >
> > My favorite is exim, because it is very configurable. Vmailer is
> > quite limited once you try to go beyond a simple configuration.
>
> If anything that is the worst part of exim :| It's configuration format
> still seems complicated to me.
It's by far the simplest MTA configuration I have ever worked with (and
that is old sendmail (sendmail.cf, no M4), smail, and exim.
Very much like smail (which is the current default MTA), only much simpler
and more regular, and also quite a bit more flexible because of the
regularity.
I find it hard to believe that exim configuration can be considered
complicated by anyone, actually.
Plus, exim has *excellent* documentation.
> I don't think that the default mailer should necessarly be the mailer that
> everyone can use for everything, there is some advantage to having a
> simple mailer for simple needs.
I prefer a simple mailer that can be used for (nearly) everything.
MfG Kai
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