Re: Moving to Debian server. (Re)Visiting the Postfix or Exim decision. Asking for Debian-ites' opinions.

2011-09-16 Thread patk . 1034
> What an amazingly patronising reply from someone seeking advice! Patronising? Hardly. Tbh, I'd initially considered your response of a similar vein, but chose to give you the benefit of the doubt, thank you for your opinion, and continue the discussion. Seems I'm making all sorts of mistakes

Re: Moving to Debian server. (Re)Visiting the Postfix or Exim decision. Asking for Debian-ites' opinions.

2011-09-16 Thread patk . 1034
> But on this mailing list that is simply accepted practice. :-) Yes, which is why I'm here asking :-) > You do realize that the discussing Exim and Postfix is like the > classic discussions between emacs and vi? It will be difficult to > really get objective answers. People like what they lik

Re: Moving to Debian server. (Re)Visiting the Postfix or Exim decision. Asking for Debian-ites' opinions.

2011-09-16 Thread patk . 1034
> What difference does it make which MTA is the distribution default? Given your response, I'd guess that it doesn't to you. Thanks for your opinion. It certainly made enough difference for Debian to choose -- differently than most. I've found Debian's 'decisions' as a distro to be generally o

Moving to Debian server. (Re)Visiting the Postfix or Exim decision. Asking for Debian-ites' opinions.

2011-09-16 Thread patk . 1034
Hi, We're evaluating our company's future server platform, and are pretty much decided on Debian. I notice that Debian has settled on Exim as the default MTA, unlike many (most?) other distros which seem to use Postfix. As we're also evaluating our mail server tech, I'd like to understand the wh