Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?
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On Sun, Jun 15 1997 11:20 BST Philip Hands writes:
> > Exim doesn't provide UUCP capabilities *at all*, thus it is rather
> > useless for sites that use UUCP (like me).
>
> I expect that you will admit that UUCP sites are a minority. I use UUCP, but
> I don't think that the majority of users who do not should be forced to use a
> cumbersome mail transfer agent because of that.
As several people already pointed out, the phone costs in Europe are rather
high;
so that people like to use the transfer agent with the shortest connection
duration,
which is doubtless UUCP.
But this requires an MTA which is capable of bang-paths in the envelope (i.e.
the
From /MAIL FROM: fields (depending whether you use rmail or rsmtp) [The From:
field
is nowadays of course a FQDN].
exim should be able to parse simple bang-paths IMO (host!user), since most
UUCP paths
are nowadays only one hop or two,or this deficiency should be
documented in the package (Conflicts: uucp or something like that)
[ I agree with the rest of the post about setup-friendliness, complexity and
security]
David
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