Re: Exim, Anyone
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 03:53:11PM +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:27:28 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use it every day. Its miles more user friendly than Sendmail. Once you use Exim you'll never be able to go back to Sendmail again. I agree with what you have said. However, I have not updated it since release 3.16. Have you set up any anti-virus with it? Or a mailing list? I have read that newer releases have changed some of the config syntax. I wonder if this has been improved for things like adding extensions (virus scans, lists, etc). What do you think? Evidently, the 4.x series has better support for anti-virus stuff and mailing lists than the 3.x series. Kurt -- You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog. -- Alfred Kahn ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Exim, Anyone
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:57:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ANyone here used Exim? What are your opinions of it, if so? It seems easier to configure thatn Sendmail. I've looked hard at exim, largely because it's the natural descendent of smail-3.2 which I've been using for about ten years. I decided to go with postfix though because it has excellent ldap support, a very active user group, and generally seemed to be the best main-stream replaceent for sendmail. Postfix also have very good anti-spam capabilities. FWIW, I've had several comments about an amazing increase in speed on the technical mailing lists we run on our servers. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views ... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering. -- Doctor Who, Face of Evil ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Exim, Anyone
On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 23:57:56 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ANyone here used Exim? What are your opinions of it, if so? It seems easier to configure thatn Sendmail. I used Exim for a number of years. It is easier to configure, for the most part. My only complaint was that things like majordomo were a bit of a hassle to set up. I think it was mainly that the method was poorly documented. I did get it to work, but there was a lot of trial and error. One thing I like about exim is the X-based GUI to keep track of the mail queue. Of course. you get the same via webmin for the sendmail queue, IIRC. The main reason we used exim was that the SVR4 mailer was sloppy about mail relaying. It was our only complaint against it. It was easier to get exim up and running on the UnixWare box then sendmail. Of course, after it was too late (we had done the exim work) SCO did a sendmail for UnixWare. We just changed the mail server that was running exim from UnixWare to Linux. For now, we are using sendmail to see how it works. So far no complaints. But we are not doing anything unusual - yet. So, overall, exim is a nice replacement for sendmail. And the command line is the same, so it can, by design, be a drop-in replacement for sendmail. -- ++===+ | Roger Oberholtzer | E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | OPQ Systems AB | WWW: http://www.opq.se/ | | Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 |Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 | | 115 32 Stockholm | Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 | | Sweden | Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 | ++===+ ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Exim, Anyone
I use it every day. Its miles more user friendly than Sendmail. Once you use Exim you'll never be able to go back to Sendmail again. On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ANyone here used Exim? What are your opinions of it, if so? It seems easier to configure thatn Sendmail. thanks, Kurt ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Exim, Anyone
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:27:28 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use it every day. Its miles more user friendly than Sendmail. Once you use Exim you'll never be able to go back to Sendmail again. I agree with what you have said. However, I have not updated it since release 3.16. Have you set up any anti-virus with it? Or a mailing list? I have read that newer releases have changed some of the config syntax. I wonder if this has been improved for things like adding extensions (virus scans, lists, etc). What do you think? -- ++===+ | Roger Oberholtzer | E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | OPQ Systems AB | WWW: http://www.opq.se/ | | Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 |Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 | | 115 32 Stockholm | Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 | | Sweden | Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 | ++===+ ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Exim, Anyone
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:27:28 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use it every day. Its miles more user friendly than Sendmail. Once you use Exim you'll never be able to go back to Sendmail again. I agree with what you have said. However, I have not updated it since release 3.16. Have you set up any anti-virus with it? Or a mailing list? I No to the anti-virus, since all of the users are expected to either: 1) Use an intelligent OS that isn't vulnerable to viri 2) Run their own anti-virus software As for the mailing list, yes, its been setup with Mailman, and it works fine. have read that newer releases have changed some of the config syntax. I wonder if this has been improved for things like adding extensions (virus scans, lists, etc). What do you think? I'm running 3.33. -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Exim, Anyone
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:03:50 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:27:28 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use it every day. Its miles more user friendly than Sendmail. Once you use Exim you'll never be able to go back to Sendmail again. I agree with what you have said. However, I have not updated it since release 3.16. Have you set up any anti-virus with it? Or a mailing list? I No to the anti-virus, since all of the users are expected to either: 1) Use an intelligent OS that isn't vulnerable to viri 2) Run their own anti-virus software We currently have those clueless OS users run their own. Seems that has not been working out very well. If they are clueless enough to run such an OS, do you really want to trust what they send out on the network they are on? So, we decided that we want an e-mail scanner for in- and outgoing mail that we can be sure works (as good as these things actually do), without trusting that each person gets it right. As for the mailing list, yes, its been setup with Mailman, and it works fine. I remember that majordomo was a bit of a pain. It could just have been that I did not become one with the config. -- ++===+ | Roger Oberholtzer | E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | OPQ Systems AB | WWW: http://www.opq.se/ | | Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 |Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 | | 115 32 Stockholm | Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 | | Sweden | Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 | ++===+ ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Exim, Anyone
ANyone here used Exim? What are your opinions of it, if so? It seems easier to configure thatn Sendmail. thanks, Kurt ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
