Re: The Heart Is An Open Source: A Romance
Be careful here: smail is not sendmail; I think it was largely an
attempt to simplify the configuration while retaining command-line
compatibility.
While exim was really a bit of a rewrite of smail.
So smail might have been a pretty good default.
Someone correct me if I got something wrong above...
"W. Paul Mills" wrote:
>
> esper@sherohman.org (Dave Sherohman) writes:
>
> I can remember when smail was the *default* -- that cured me of
> using debian defaults! Interesting story.
>
> >
> > Actually, given all the Debian-centric info on BIND, I was kind of surprised
> > that he wasn't running Debian's default MTA: exim. (OTOH, exim's handling
> > of aliases and virtual domains is a lot simpler than sendmail's (oh, hell -
> > damn near _anything_ is simpler than configuring sendmail), so the story
> > would've lost at least 30-40 lines of explanations if exim was used.)
> >
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