Re: default MTA
On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 14:07:38 +0100, Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>
wrote:
>On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 06:38:52PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>> On Thu, 30 May 2013 16:53:56 +0200, md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) wrote:
>> >I think that ease of configurability is a major plus for Postfix when
>> >compared to Exim, since a common configurations is just a few lines long.
>>
>> How many lines does an average update-exim4.conf.conf have?
>
>You're right, in that the "interface" that a user has to exim-on-debian is
>update-exim4.conf.conf, rather than exim4's configuration directly; however,
>length aside, I don't see this as a strength, but a serious source of
>confusion.
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.
Greetings
Marc
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