Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink
paul@wau.mis.ah.nl (Paul Slootman) wrote on 07.10.98 in <[🔎] 19981007130051.B14711@wau.mis.ah.nl>:
> On Tue 06 Oct 1998, Robert Woodcock wrote:
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, what's the security track record on smail vs exim
> > for the last two years? The standard MTA should have a chance of being
> > secure from remote attacks for at least a year after release.
> Demon (a large ISP in the UK and the Netherlands, www.demon.net)
> uses Exim as its customer-facing smtp interface, so I guess that they're
> convinced as well.
I'm currently migrating westfalen.de (a small volunteer-run ISP) from
smail to exim, partially because the smail anti-relaying stuff is too
immature in my eyes, partially because I hate it how smail has more ways
to produce bang paths instead of RFC 822 addresses than you can shake a
stick at, and partially because exim configuration is just a whole lot
saner. (We have a fairly complicated mail configuration for such a small
ISP: POP3, UUCP w/rmail and w/bsmtp, some people get mail with SMTP,
various different versions of forwarding. Oh, and at least one domain per
account.)
With that migration, every Linux system I admin will be Debian with Exim.
MfG Kai
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