Am Do, den 24.02.2005 schrieb Josh Boyer um 21:56: > > Even a "newbie" can do simple setups this way. The makefile under > > /etc/mail makes it simple to rebuild the .cf file or even a service > > restart rebuilds the .cf if .mc files were changed. > > Yes, but with exim you don't need to run make. You just edit the config file > and you're done. As said too, same with Sendmail: just restart the service so that it rereads his configuration. > > More complex setup always require a deeper understanding of the whole > > mail server (MTA side as well IMAP/POP3 side) topic. The basic Sendmail > > setup shipped with Fedora Core runs out-of-the-box locally. The change > > to open it for outside connections is a 1 line change. Well > > understandable documented. > > Really? I disagree. I hardly know anything about mail servers, yet I exim > allows me to run spam and virus checking by simply uncommenting one line. And > unlike sendmail, I didn't have to explicitly enable outside connections. That is an argument to "improve" the default setup Sendmail is shipping with Fedora Core. I wonder a bit that Exim is shipped wide open to the net, because both Sendmail and Postfix are limited to localhost with good reasons. > > So with Sendmail by calling these kind of applications as a milter entry > > in the sendmail.mc. > > Sure, but a user needs to know what a milter entry is right? And how to set it > up to do what you need it to do, etc. I don't have a clue what a milter entry > is. You don't know because you didn't read the documentation. It is ok as you don't run Sendmail. My argument was different: anyone running an MTA reachable from the public internet should know well about his service. This is very obvious for all who's daily business is mail administration. > I'm not saying sendmail can't do equivalent (or even more) things. I don't > claim to know a lot about MTAs, what makes them good, what doesn't, and why one > is better than the other. I'm just saying that from a newbie perspective > (mine), exim was easier for me to use. If you feel so, ok. From reading the Exim documentation I don't have the impression that the Exim configuration is that intuitive. > josh Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | new address - new key: 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon kernel 2.6.10-1.14_FC2smp Serendipity 22:09:50 up 3 days, 9:18, load average: 0.13, 0.34, 0.44
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