willhill wrote: > Is apt-get install exim any easier? For a short time, I was able to run a > mail server and it did not seem like any big deal. Filtering is built into > the major mail clients and Exim's default settings for my situation looked > sane. Is these something I'm missing here? > Not really. it's not the installing the software that's the issue. It's the understanding the SMTP and DNS protocol relationships and how spam works that's the issue. > Authenticated smtp looks like a nice thing, but won't the spammers figure it > out faster than I did? >
You sorta made my point there. For personal use, unless you're trying to get up to speed on running a mail server for educational or professional reasons, trusting Google or some other 3rd party email vendor is probably the way to go. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
