On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:52:33AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jul 15, Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> wrote: > > >it's very easy to configure: > >Exim is, too. > No, it's not. This is a working default postfix configuration which > allows local and remote delivery. Three statements. Interesting. This is going a little off a tangent but I wonder if ones preference depends on the way you think. See, your example file is very short but I hate it for the same reason I hate sendmail: too much magic. I see sendmail configuration files that are ten lines long and I can't wrap my brain around them. OTOH, when I look at an Exim configuration I can see the steps. After global parameters, looks if the domain is in local_domains, if so see list A else list B. Each list is traversed in order until one matches and a delivery happens. Postfix seems the other way round; there is a setup somewhere that you tweak using options in your configuration. We have someone at work who is a Postfix fan so I have looked into it. But our Exim configuration checks several user lists in a specific order and does different types of deliveries depending on various tests. While I'm sure this is possible in Postfix I can't see how to do it. Does any one have a link to a *complicated* postfix setup; something that will cause the penny to drop? Have a nice day, > # your hostname. I'm not actually sure that this is needed > myhostname = host.example.com > # required by debian policy > myorigin = /etc/mailname > # want relaying? > # mynetworks = 10.0.0.0/8 > # want procmail by default? > # mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION" > # want a smarthost? > # relayhost = [smtp.example.net] > > # I consider this to be a bug of the debian postfix package, > # $program_directory should be correct by default. > program_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix > > Now please try to express the same configuration in exim.conf format. -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > "All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for enough good > men to do nothing." - Edmond Burke > "The penalty good people pay for not being interested in politics is to be > governed by people worse than themselves." - Plato
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