On Thursday, May 30, 2013 15:48:14, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > On 29/05/13 08:18, Chris Knadle wrote: > > On Monday, May 27, 2013 21:02:22, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >> > Now that we are done with systemd for the time being, can we have the > >> > flame war about replacing Exim with Postfix as the default MTA? > >> > > >> > Are there any objections other than "but I like it this way!"? > > > > What are the reasons to make the switch? (I think it's more important to > > hear the "pro" reasoning than the "con" reasoning.) > > I think that the main reason to prefer postfix is because is considered > more secure than Exim. It was designed with security in mind.
Security and ease-of-use are at odds with one-another, so you have to sacrifice part of one of those to get the other. [For instance, this is likely one of the considerations of why Debian (at least last I checked) didn't have SELinux /active/ by default on new installations.] For Exim, the one thing I would want to change would be to ship a configuration that by default created an SSL certificate and enabled MAIN_TLS_ENABLE to enable TLS SMTP transfers. [The Postfix package in Debian does this.] There's documentation and help for doing this for Exim in /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz in Section 2.2 though, and so I suspect there's a _reason_ why this isn't the default. > This wiki page has a nice summary http://wiki.debian.org/DefaultMTA I think the negative point of "Support community limited outside of Debian" is untrue. The exim-us...@exim.org mailing list is very active and responsive, and Exim has become the most popular MTA since sometime in 2008. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74
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