Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:50:54 +1100
"Ian Perry" <iperry@inertia.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know this question is subjective to personal preferences.... Is there an
> advantage to exim over sendmail or vice versa for ease of setup/maintenance
> etc ? I would be interested in comments from those who have used both.
>
> Is there something better than either of them ?
>
> I have very little experience with either of them, and have found nothing in
> the archives on the subject. I need something extremely simple to simply
> send and receive mail, but not to be an open relay.
>
> I have been to both exim and sendmail websites and both 'seem' to do pretty
> much the same job and can get as complex as you want.
>
> Ian
>
Exim is better than sendmail, apparently it has so many holes even the creator of the programme has found other work, writing for eweek, or some such.
Exim may take a little bit of research, as I understand it, some of the packages suitable for exim3 still have to be upgraded for exim4, or exim4 Heavy. But that shouldn't be too long in happening.
Regards,
David.
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