Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > In <20090706212028.gd31...@wasteland.homelinux.net>, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I would avoid Sendmail since it is *really* old and hard to configure. > > Sendmail gets more modern all the time, but m4 is quite the beast for > configuration files. Still, if you learn it you'll be an aid to any project > still using autoconf.
I have no trouble believing that. :) >> Popcon data >> shows 19% usage of Postfix and 69% of Exim which appears to support this >> theory. > > Popcon data is going to biased in favor of Exim as many users will get it by > default when cron or anacron is installed. ACK, that's why I said Postfix is picked by the majority of users consciously picking an alternative. Of course, we don't know how many people consciously stay with Exim. > I've found exim4 to be quite easy to configure, but not entirely intuitive. > The documentation is a required read if you need to do anything not handled > by the debconf setup. (e.g. tying into a IMAPd or SPAM/malware scans at > delivery or SMTP time) ACK again. It's been a while since I last looked into it, but my impression was that you have to read and understand the whole spec.txt (which introduces quite a bit of Exim-specific terminology) to be able to do anything. That's not necessarily a bad thing and I am sure Exim is a good choice in many setups. I just found that Postfix makes it easier to configure only the aspects you are interested in. To the OP: perhaps it would be better if you could say what exactly you are trying to do. Then people could comment on their experience with similar setups. My experience with Postfix: - "satellite system" as configured by debconf: a no-brainer with either Postfix or Exim. - mail relay for home network. Not that easy if you want sender dependent relay hosts and SMTP authentication, but there are good howtos out there. - MX for a small domain with only a few users, but including virtual domain hosting, spam filtering, database backend and IMAP (dovecot) integration. You have to know what you are doing but then it is surprisingly easy. I think once you grok the whole lookup table concept and Postfix' main confiuration variables (relay_domains, mydestination, *_restrictions etc.) you can easily do anything you can expect of an MTA. J. -- Every day in every way I am getting better and better. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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