Exim, Anyone

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 23:57:56 -0500
kwall at kurtwerks.com 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.

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