Re: default MTA
On 11-06-13 18:37, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 12:45:07PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>> Sendmail has just one more layer of indirection by virtue of the m4
>> macros. Postfix has most of its behavior hard coded in the C sources,
>> while exim's behavior can be controlled by run-time configuration if
>> an advanced user wants to do things that Debian's abstraction layer
>> was not designed to handle.
>
> There are a class of users between beginner and exim expert for which the
> current state of affairs is not optimal. I don't know how big that class
> is but I've been in it for ten years.
To this exim expert, configuring exim is done as follows:
zcat /usr/share/doc/exim4/examples/example.conf.gz > /etc/exim4/exim4.conf
$EDITOR /etc/exim4/exim4.conf
the comments in that file are pretty self-explanatory, and the example
configuration is a good default in that it is a functional one for local
mail (possibly received through SMTP) while not being an open relay.
(this is not meant as criticism for the exim4-config stuff. I understand
and agree there's a need for this kind of thing for people who don't
need a lot of complex stuff; it just doesn't work for me, that's all)
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