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Re: default MTA for sarge



In article <[🔎] 20030716095233.GC808@wonderland.linux.it>,
Marco d'Itri  <md@Linux.IT> 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.
>
># 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.

You know, it would be trivial to write an exim.conf that can
read that postfix config file .. see my other message in this thread.

I know, you can probably do that with sendmail.cf as well. The
difference is that exim.conf is written in english and sendmail.cf
is written in swahili linenoise.

Mike.



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