Re: [users] Re: mail server question
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> and i propose postfix. then again, i would happily like to hear why
> exim is better (or not).
Exim (in my experience):
* is easier to configure
* is much more flexible
> it looks to me as if exim is a newcomer and
The other way around actually - Exim 1.x easily dates back to 1996 and (in
my understanding) is derived from another MTA (smail, to be precise) that
dates back to the late 1980s or the eary 1990s.
Postfix, in comparison, didn't even see the light of day (outside of IBM,
that is) until eary 1998 :)
> in as such, i don't see how it can possibly get close to postfix,
> which is excellent!!!
It's been my experience that exim handily beats postfix, especially in the
ways you can mix & match database & directory service lookups.
But yes, postfix is very nice :) By my count it's light-years ahead of
the (non-exim/non-postfix) competition (aka sendmail & qmail).
> i would be happy to provide you with a dynamic dns name and mail
> exchange relay; that plus ETRN solves my troubles with dynamic IP
> connections...
Fetchmail works wonders in such situations.
There's good, old-fashioned UUCP as well :)
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