Re: Debian's default MTA + MDA
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:06:01PM -0400, dman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:38:58AM +1000, Andrew Nesbit wrote:
> | Hello. I am still preparing to install Debian, but I am not sure of what the
> | default MTA is. I get the impression that it is exim,
> Hmm, ... default ... I guess whatever dselect or tasksel or whatever
> part of the install system picks something is the default.
...which is exim.
> exim is fairly easy to configure for
> "normal" systems by using eximconfig.
eximconfig also generates a well-commented config file, so editing it
manually to accomodate less-standard configurations is pretty easy.
> | And another thing: what is the default MDA? (Does exim function as its own
> | MDA?)
>
> Most (all?) full-fledged MTAs can function as an MDA as well. I know
> for a fact that exim and sendmail can both deliver mail to a user's
> inbox (which is MDA functionality).
exim's MDA functionality is a bit more extensive than sendmail's...
I no longer install procmail on machines that I set up, because I
haven't yet run into anything that procmail can do and exim can't.
(Of course, now that I've said that, I fully expect procmail's fans
to make a list...) And, like the config file, exim filter
definitions are human-readable.
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