Re: [users] Re: mail server question
Yeah, exim is much more flexible, but it lacks one very evil
feature (oh, that is, lacking 'out-of-the-deb' support for
) "BCC to boss" feature.. :)
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k h a o s * lamer
new name, new look, new ftp:
linuxxxxx.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter)
upload something before downloading, or your class C IP banned.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Brutsche" <pbrutsch@tux.creighton.edu>
To: "Martin F. Krafft" <madduck@madduck.net>
Cc: "Debian-users" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [users] Re: mail server question
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> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
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> > 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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