Re: [RFC] Exim as standard Debian MTA?

1998-10-28 Thread Philipp Frauenfelder
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've always found exim's configuration to be formidable. It is > configurable but not easially configurable. You do have the read the (very > long) documents detailing the mechanics for what is going on and have to > understand them before you can attem

Re: [RFC] Exim as standard Debian MTA?

1998-10-28 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After that it is not terribly bad.. But definately not something I would >wish on someone who does not understand mail. Uhm - someone who doesn't understand mail shouldn't fiddle around with _any_ MTA. Far to dangerous. S

Re: [RFC] Exim as standard Debian MTA?

1998-10-28 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 05:36:44PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > It's by far the simplest MTA configuration I have ever worked with (and > > that is old sendmail (sendmail.cf, no M4), smail, and exim. > > I've always found exim's configuration to be formidable. It is > configurable but not e

Re: [RFC] Exim as standard Debian MTA?

1998-10-28 Thread Alexander Koch
On Tue, 27 October 1998 17:36:44 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > I've always found exim's configuration to be formidable. It is > configurable but not easially configurable. You do have the read the (very > long) documents detailing the mechanics for what is going on and have to > understand them b

Re: [RFC] Exim as standard Debian MTA?

1998-10-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 27 Oct 1998, Kai Henningsen wrote: > > > My favorite is exim, because it is very configurable. Vmailer is > > > quite limited once you try to go beyond a simple configuration. > > > > If anything that is the worst part of exim :| It's configuration format > > still seems complicated to me. >

Re: [RFC] Exim as standard Debian MTA?

1998-10-28 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Gunthorpe) wrote on 27.08.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 27 Aug 1998, Jim Pick wrote: > > > > On Aug 26, Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >It seems like everybody agrees on switching to exim, but nothing as > > > >been > > > I don't think so. >