Re: Exim as default mailer
I decided to move to exim recently for my MTA, however i found that the
debian package does not set it up correctly for local delivery. The exim
manual says that the exim binary must be setuid to root but I, as of yet,
have to figure out where i should set it since it uses inetd to run. It can
either be set in inetd, on the binary it self, or in the exim.conf file, or
am i wrong. If someone using exim could help me out it would be greatly
appreciated.
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 02:35:22AM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Moore, Paul wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > There seems to be a lot of talk about moving to Exim as the default
> > mailer for Debian. While I feel like I should support Exim (as I used to
> > go to Cambridge, whwre it was developed :-) I was concerned when I
> > initially looked at it by the statement in the (version 2) manual
> > (section 39, "Intermittently connected hosts") where it says "Exim was
> > designed for use on permanently connected hosts, and so it is not
> > particularly well-suited for use in an intermittently connected
> > environment."
>
> This is true for ANY SMTP mailer. SMTP is designed for servers with
> permanent connections ( to the extent that inbound email is concerned ).
> People with intermittant connectivity are best served with either
> collecting mail via pop3 from a host with full-time connectivity, uucp
> over tcp/ip for domain email for networks with intermittant connectivity,
> or plain uucp for hosts with no tcp/ip access but dialup acces to a host
> that does. UUCP over TCP/IP is a _MUCH_ better solution than a virtual
> domain that feeds all-users@domain.com to a single pop3 mailbox.
>
>
> >
> > As I have a single-user home PC with dial-up access to my ISP, I fall
> > squarely into the category of users for whom Exim is "not particularly
> > well-suited". Is this a real problem, or is Exim a good mailer for
> > dial-up systems?
>
> You can use fetchmail to get the mail from your ISP but please have a look
> at the exim site for some tweaks to get it to work at optimum performance.
>
> >
> > In theory, I like Exim, not least for the clear and comprehensive
> > manual, but I really don't want to spend a long time fighting the
> > system's assumptions just to get it set up...
>
> It works just fine.
>
>
> George Bonser
>
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