At 1:48 PM -0800 2005-03-25, John W. Baxter wrote:
Debian woody notwithstanding, no one should be installing and running Exim 3 these days. There is essentially no one readily available (eg, on the exim-users mailing list) who remembers much about it.
Think someone who already has Exim 3 on their legacy machine, and wants to upgrade Mailman but not anything else. You'd be surprised how many people out there are in this position.
(After 10 years of reading Exim logs, and a few minutes reading Postfix logs, I would reverse Brad's characterization (I don't know how configurable Postfix's logging is...Exim can add or drop many aspects of the log entries). Actually, the Postfix logs look quite reasonable.)
Indeed, that's one of the aspects I find most confusing about Exim's log information. Trying to help out this one site, I ended up having to turn on all possible logging in order to get some clue as to what was going on, because it was totally unclear as to which particular little fiddly bit I needed to tweak in order to see the information I needed.
Log configuration is an area where I consider Exim to be the weakest. Conversely, this is an area where I think postfix shines.
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