On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 14:07:38 +0100, Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote: >On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 06:38:52PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Thu, 30 May 2013 16:53:56 +0200, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >> >I think that ease of configurability is a major plus for Postfix when >> >compared to Exim, since a common configurations is just a few lines long. >> >> How many lines does an average update-exim4.conf.conf have? > >You're right, in that the "interface" that a user has to exim-on-debian is >update-exim4.conf.conf, rather than exim4's configuration directly; however, >length aside, I don't see this as a strength, but a serious source of >confusion.
Sendmail has just one more layer of indirection by virtue of the m4 macros. Postfix has most of its behavior hard coded in the C sources, while exim's behavior can be controlled by run-time configuration if an advanced user wants to do things that Debian's abstraction layer was not designed to handle. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1ukuan-0002iq...@swivel.zugschlus.de
