kissing exim
Greetings,
Debian installs with Exim as the default mta but many users (especially
dial-up users) only need the mta to hand their mail to a smarthost.
sSMTP is easily configured to hand over outgoing mail to an ISP's smtp
server, since that is the only thing sSMTP does. Exim is very difficult
to configure to do this (even by selecting option #2 for dialup in
eximconfig).
I am confident that Exim can indeed be configured to act like sSMTP if
the sysadmin is experienced and familiar with Exim, but deploying Exim
in this way would seem to be an instance of using a complex tool where a
simple one would suffice. I am a newbie, running testing with a dialup
connection. There are many of us out here still using 56K modems on
older equipment (especially outside North America) and who have big
trouble configuring Exim simply to send mail to a smarthost; witness the
number of times this comes up on debian-user. sSMTP is an easy mta for
a newbie to setup so that all things being equal, their mail will work
out-of-the-box after a fresh Debian install.
Could sSMTP be installed by default (or at least be recommended as an
option during the install process) for dialup users, in case they may
wish to use an mua like *mutt* (which needs an mta to hand off outgoing
mail to a smarthost), but who don't need the bloat or the config file
headache that they will get if they try to use the featureful Exim to
perform this one, simple task?
Kind regards,
Anthony Rowe
--
the computer is the game
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