Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:47:28 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andre Hall" <ahall@pcgameauthority.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>, Yann Golanski <yann@kierun.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Exim as an alternative MTA in FreeBSD [was: Re: Mail client preferred?] Message-ID: <200210101347.g9ADlSeQ004149@inetworx.pcgameauthority.com>
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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 <yann@kierun.org> 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 majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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