On 27 Sep 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Why does Debian install exim by default? I've always had slight > >difficulties with configuring it, whereas smail always works for me > >faultlessly. > > What difficulties have you had? I've never had any problems, and the > configuration is lovely. > > With regard to it being the default, I guess that's why there are > alternatives. :) > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
I thought I had exim working well, but then I found I was unable to send mail to the mail server at one of my ISPs. Eventually I commented out "qualify_domain" in /etc/exim.conf and this seemed to fix the problem, but I didn't understand why. Smail always seems to work without problems for me. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/ Skeptical articles: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/freethinker/ "Palo y tente tieso." (Spanish proverb) Free translation: "Holdfast is your only dog."
