Re: default MTA
On Thu, 30 May 2013 19:51:04 -0400, Chris Knadle
<Chris.Knadle@coredump.us> wrote:
>For Exim, the one thing I would want to change would be to ship a
>configuration that by default created an SSL certificate and enabled
>MAIN_TLS_ENABLE to enable TLS SMTP transfers.
For e-mail coming in from other clients, with the local exim acting as
a server?
Certificates are usually only used in E-Mail when a server
authenticates itself to a client before the client sends its
authentication data. SMTP with client certificates is possible, but I
have only seen this two times in 15 years of running E-Mail servers.
> [The Postfix package in Debian
>does this.] There's documentation and help for doing this for Exim in
>/usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz in Section 2.2 though, and so I
>suspect there's a _reason_ why this isn't the default.
Noone has yet written code to do that, and volunteered to document and
support it.
Personally, I think that before we improve Exim's packaging in Debian
to be an SMTP server, we should first make it easiert to use Exim as a
client with a smart host, thus debconfing the username/password and
authentication scheme. Noone has volunteered to write that code,
either.
>> This wiki page has a nice summary http://wiki.debian.org/DefaultMTA
>
>I think the negative point of "Support community limited outside of Debian" is
>untrue. The exim-users@exim.org mailing list is very active and responsive,
>and Exim has become the most popular MTA since sometime in 2008.
Agreed, but exim's development speed has considerably slowed down
since Philip Hazel retired. The exim community is still alive, but I'd
say it's in limbo. Which is a real shame.
Greetings
Marc
--
-------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! -----
Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header
Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/
Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834
Reply to: