Re: MDA's was: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)
wrl@gandalf.wconsult.com writes:
Sorry about coming to this late, but I'm still catching up on
debian-devel...
> I will take a look at sendmail because of Manoj's remarks since the only
> significant disadvantage to sendmail that I could see is that it can be a
> real tough one to set up properly (if you are a continuously connected
> mail server then it is almost a 'snap' to set up using the conventional
> sendmail configuration).
[...]
Exim can handle both of the following pretty easily.
> It should not require days of study of various documents, man pages,
> HOWTOs, example configuration files, etc. just to get an email system
> that:
>
> 1) Places a vaild (to the ISP) From header on all internet bound mail
> (no matter what the user's local network name might be).
This one can be done trivially in /etc/exim.conf. At the end, I have:
rlb@nevermore.csres.utexas.edu rlb@cs.utexas.edu Ffrs
You'd substitute your local machines "address", perhaps even localhost
for nevermore.csres.utexas.edu, and you can have separate entries for
as many users as you like. I think you can probably even use db files
for the names/rules. The letters at the end indicate which headers
should be rewritten. See "info exim" for details.
> 2) Send all 'outbound' mail to a smarthost depending upon which ISP
> is in use.
I just have a single smarthost setup, which is easy from eximconfig.
For multiple setups, which depend on your current connection, you
could just have /etc/ppp/ip.up/my-mailconfig change /etc/exim.conf to
point to different /etc/exim.conf.<provider> files.
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