Exim, Anyone

[kwall@kurtwerks.com]

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 05:11:27PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:57:56PM -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've looked hard at exim, largely because it's the natural descendent of
> smail-3.2 which I've been using for about ten years.  I decided to go with
> postfix though because it has excellent ldap support, a very active user
> group, and generally seemed to be the best main-stream replaceent for
> sendmail.
> 
> Postfix also have very good anti-spam capabilities.
> 
> FWIW, I've had several comments about an amazing increase in speed on the
> technical mailing lists we run on our servers.

Thanks for the input, Roger, Llama, and Bill. Exim was very easy to set 
up and I liked the simpler configuration file. The GUI spool monitor is
nice, but not required. Bill brings up a key point and the issue that
made me look at Exim in the first place: mailing list speed. I'm going
to setting up a mailing list and want good performance on the server.
It's no secret that Sendmail lags in the performance category. 

Another issue that I have with Sendmail is that it is *too* configurable.
I don't have an exotic mail set up, so much of Sendmail's configuration
is wasted on me. Deliver mail locally and remotely; don't relay unless
I permit it; support aliases and .forward files; support anti-spam tools.

I'll write up a Step on Exim configuration after I tested it more here
at KurtWerks.

Kurt
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