On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:55:58AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > exim is basically smail done right. > > it's adequate for a small site with low mail volumes, but it doesn't > scale very well.
Have you got some real experimental data about exim's scalability or just guessing? > IMO, exim is a poor choice of default MTA by debian. unfortunately, > that choice was made before postfix was a viable alternative. there > have been a few attempts to get the default MTA changed, it gets > discussed for a few days or weeks, most people agree that it would be > a good thing to do, but nothing happens. IMO, exim and postfix are comparable and there's no huge difference which favours one of them. I use exim in all my installations, they are usually small to medium size, but even with big ones, I would consider exim as a good MTA. Marcin -- Windows 2000: A reliable comprehensive and integrated operating system platform delivering seamless interoperability, scalability, and performance, and broad application support. Open Source: No f*ing buzzwords.