On Monday, May 27, 2013 21:02:22, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Now that we are done with systemd for the time being, can we have the > flame war about replacing Exim with Postfix as the default MTA? > > Are there any objections other than "but I like it this way!"?
What are the reasons to make the switch? (I think it's more important to hear the "pro" reasoning than the "con" reasoning.) But to answer your question: my "objections" to Postfix over Exim, off-the-top-of-my-head: - Exim is more popular http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.201201/mxsurvey.html - Exim has a GPL license, which is preferable IMHO. Postfix uses the "IBM Public License" which places any liability on the distributor of the software, and has some other unfortunate clauses and is GPL incompatible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Public_License - Exim configuration is more human readable than Postifx's, IMHO. Postfix configuration is concise but terse, and there are typically blocks of options separated by commas that doesn't easily allow commenting on specific config options. - Exim logging is cleaner than Postfix's, IMHO. Postfix seems to "redeliver mail to itself" repeatedly which makes it more difficult to grep the logs for a complete transaction. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201305290218.03379.chris.kna...@coredump.us