On Thursday 24 February 2005 14:53, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 11:45:15AM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > There seems to be a lot of dissatisfaction with sendmail in the call to > > replace it with Exim or Postfix, but I didn't see any specifics about why > > people object to it. Anyone care to give details? > > Most of the discusion has been about what should be the default. For > "newbies" sendmail can be a pain to configure. It's documentation leaves > something to be desired, and the default sendmail.cf file isn't all that > helpful. > > That's not to say that sendmail isn't useful or does't work properly. It > does. But if a package is going to be the default for a distribution, it > should also be fairly simple for new users to configure and adapt to. I take issue to that. sendmail has always been *TONS* easier for me to configure then postfix/exim. the sendmail.mc file is simple to understand and edit. > > I'm using sendmail together with MIMEDefang to run SpamAssassin and > > ClamAV against messages during the SMTP transaction so that I can reject > > obvious spam and viruses before they're committed to a queue. MIMEDefang > > uses a user-edited Perl script to establish the exact rules for > > acceptance, making the system very flexible. How hard is that to set up > > in Postfix or Exim? > > I haven't looked at postfix yet (will tonight maybe), but for exim all one > has to do is uncomment one line in the default config file once > spamassassin and a virus checker are installed. Very easy. -- Public Key available Here: http://www.bravegnuworld.com/~rjune/pubkey.asc
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