Re: Exim as an alternative MTA in FreeBSD.
Quoth Andre Hall on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 06:47:28 -0700 > OK, I'm just curious. I've heard many reasons for replacing Sendmail > but have never heard a valid reason for someone replacing Postfix with > yet another MTA. I'm patial to the ease of use and security of Postfix > but Exim over Postfix? What does it do that Postfix can't? According > to a technical book about Postfix I've purchased and the slew of > support sites I've visited Postfix is a worthy alternative. While I am not an expert in either Sendmail or Postfix, I have done quiet a lot of work with Exim including working on the largest mail system in Europe which oddly enough runs Exim. The main reasons that I would recomand Exim are that the configuration file is easy to read and understand. It has a very detailed and clear documentation. It is highly configurable with inclusion of filter files, external programes (spamassassin and exiscan for example), databases, SSL, and the usual MTA jobs such as virtual domains and the like. It is extermly secure and well designed. I would certainly recomand it over Sendmail which is confusing, unsecrure and very unfelxible. I would as well recomand it over Qmail which is cryptic at best and does not scale as well. As for Postfix, i have never ran a system with it but have investigated it as a replacement for Exim on the system I was running and decided against it as it was not suited to what I was doing. However, I found it a decent MTA. To learn more, there is the Exim site: www.exim.org which has a short introduction to it. Well worth the ten minutes it will take you to read it if you are intrested in mail administration. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: www.kierun.org/pgp/key-kierun PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Exim as an alternative MTA in FreeBSD [was: Re: Mail client preferred?]
OK, I'm just curious. I've heard many reasons for replacing Sendmail but have never heard a valid reason for someone replacing Postfix with yet another MTA. I'm patial to the ease of use and security of Postfix but Exim over Postfix? What does it do that Postfix can't? According to a technical book about Postfix I've purchased and the slew of support sites I've visited Postfix is a worthy alternative. > > > On 2002-10-10 12:11, Yann Golanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quoth Cliff Sarginson on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 13:10:07 +0200 > > > My mail combination is MTA = Postfix, MDA = procmail, MUA = Mutt, Spam > > > catcher = Spamassassin. It works well except I hate procmail beyone > > > rationality, but the setup works well. > > > > Have a look at Exim (www.exim.org) as it has a very good filter > > capability -- similar to procmail, but far more powerfull and cleanly > > written. You'll have to replace postfix as Exim is an MTA but that is > > worth doing IMNSHO. > > I was this ->.<- close to installing Exim today, to play around a > little. Sheldon has been doing a great job with the Exim ports, as I > can see from the logs, and I will definitely give Exim a shot during > the weekend. > > If anyone has useful pointers that they would like to send to me, I'd > be much obliged. My intention is to try installing Exim to replace > Sendmail on my workstation at home, and keep notes. Then, at the end > of it all, I'll sit down and write a little addition to the Handbook > about installing Exim as an alternative MTA in FreeBSD. > > If anyone of you has something that they would consider a useful > addition to a set of notes for Exim, I would be much indebted if you > mailed them personally to me. > > Giorgos. > > -- NeoMail - Webmail that doesn't suck... as much. http://neomail.sourceforge.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
