Re: exim or smail?
On 27 Sep 2000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Anthony Campbell <a.campbell@doctors.org.uk> wrote:
> >Why does Debian install exim by default? I've always had slight
> >difficulties with configuring it, whereas smail always works for me
> >faultlessly.
>
> What difficulties have you had? I've never had any problems, and the
> configuration is lovely.
>
> With regard to it being the default, I guess that's why there are
> alternatives. :)
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
>
I thought I had exim working well, but then I found I was unable to send
mail to the mail server at one of my ISPs. Eventually I commented out
"qualify_domain" in /etc/exim.conf and this seemed to fix the problem,
but I didn't understand why.
Smail always seems to work without problems for me.
Anthony
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