Yeah, exim is much more flexible, but it lacks one very evil feature (oh, that is, lacking 'out-of-the-deb' support for ) "BCC to boss" feature.. :)
-- k h a o s * lamer new name, new look, new ftp: linuxxxxx.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter) upload something before downloading, or your class C IP banned. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Brutsche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian-users" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 9:39 AM Subject: Re: [users] Re: mail server question > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > and i propose postfix. then again, i would happily like to hear why > > exim is better (or not). > > Exim (in my experience): > > * is easier to configure > * is much more flexible > > > it looks to me as if exim is a newcomer and > > The other way around actually - Exim 1.x easily dates back to 1996 and (in > my understanding) is derived from another MTA (smail, to be precise) that > dates back to the late 1980s or the eary 1990s. > > Postfix, in comparison, didn't even see the light of day (outside of IBM, > that is) until eary 1998 :) > > > in as such, i don't see how it can possibly get close to postfix, > > which is excellent!!! > > It's been my experience that exim handily beats postfix, especially in the > ways you can mix & match database & directory service lookups. > > But yes, postfix is very nice :) By my count it's light-years ahead of > the (non-exim/non-postfix) competition (aka sendmail & qmail). > > > i would be happy to provide you with a dynamic dns name and mail > > exchange relay; that plus ETRN solves my troubles with dynamic IP > > connections... > > Fetchmail works wonders in such situations. > > There's good, old-fashioned UUCP as well :) > > - -- > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC > GPG key id: 50DE1CFC > GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Made with pgp4pine > > iD8DBQE7Pn9e/ZTSZFDeHPwRAoW4AJ9b2CDi7ge+c1BeDCQUswG4sS97TgCdHCRP > 3ffLdq5r53i5qQZS2DiSRJs= > =cP95 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
