On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 11:39:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > in the message IDed as <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Woodcock <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote this on Mon, 05 Oct 1998 20:31:24 PDT: > > Yeah, I know this makes at least the second reincarnation of this thread in > > the last 6 months, but I really think exim should be the standard MTA in > > slink. > > (I am not a voter here.) > > Fine... but PLEASE don't make decisions that would make any of the other > mailers unusable to any degree (that's for everyone else), -especially- > sendmail (that's for me).
To use sendmail on a new Debian system requires an extra effort to install it. That's not the case with smail. It is with exim too currently. WHat is being asked is to make the default mailer for those who don't want to or need to mess with another mailer be exim. Based on exim's relative ease of setup, this is a good thing. It sets up a lot like smail, so even if you don't like eximconfig it's not much different than smailconfig except of course that the results work more often than with smailconfig. Exim is also extremely configurable. It's a little hairy in places to do so, but no more than (far less than) sendmail. Having said all that, smarthosting didn't work for me I find out because my connection was not permanent.
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