-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 January 2002 3:57 am, Craig Dickson wrote: > David B Harris wrote: > > Second, I recommend Exim :) It's well-maintained, it's the default MTA, > > and it's easy to set up. However, don't expect a magic wand. When I say > > "easy to set up", I'm comparing it to other MTAs with similar > > functionality > > I think Postfix is no harder to set up than Exim (I've done both within > the last year on Debian systems), and more secure. >
I too have tried both - after also trying sendmail and qmail. Sendmail was almost impossible to understand - although this was the first attempt at understanding what I wanted an MTA to do Then I tried qmail and spent a long time working out a picture of how to get it do do wanted. Eventually I did, but in the end got fed up with the fact that it was so non standard in terms of file system usage and how you got it to run. Then I tried postfix - which I have to say is about the same complexity as exim (now I have got to know it) - but at the time I had a look at both and thought I understood postfix better (the concepts of directors, routers and transports of exim when I couldn't see them as separate programs rather than sections in the config file really confused me on the brief look). However, I found something I couldn't do with postfix. I needed a non local transport to sent mail to cyrus imap - and with that the parameter that told it to route all unknown addresses to one address (mine) seemed not to apply. Whether it can do that and I just couldn't find it or not is irrelevent now - it caused me to look more closely at exim. I spent a day one weekend concentrating very hard at reading through exim spec and the configuration file and "understanding it" and now I that I do I think it is most flexible whilst retaining an inherent simplicity. I have just spent an hour or so working out how to put razor-check in it to check all my e-mail and I am about to set that up. - -- Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8Pz+C1mf3M5ZDr2kRAh9TAJ48LKw2QHNOy6b8mp5HU6xcMKzIlwCbBGdm 4yXccEWxLxVOaTxwJ1NZhI4= =POk9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
