Be careful here: smail is not sendmail; I think it was largely an attempt to simplify the configuration while retaining command-line compatibility.
While exim was really a bit of a rewrite of smail. So smail might have been a pretty good default. Someone correct me if I got something wrong above... "W. Paul Mills" wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Sherohman) writes: > > I can remember when smail was the *default* -- that cured me of > using debian defaults! Interesting story. > > > > > Actually, given all the Debian-centric info on BIND, I was kind of surprised > > that he wasn't running Debian's default MTA: exim. (OTOH, exim's handling > > of aliases and virtual domains is a lot simpler than sendmail's (oh, hell - > > damn near _anything_ is simpler than configuring sendmail), so the story > > would've lost at least 30-40 lines of explanations if exim was used.) > > > > -- > * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * > * that whoever believes in Him should not perish... John 3:16 * > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I would rather spend 10 hours reading someone else's source code than 10 minutes listening to Musak waiting for technical support which isn't. -- Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center