Re: [RFC] Exim as standard Debian MTA?

1998-10-28 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Gunthorpe) wrote on 27.08.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 27 Aug 1998, Jim Pick wrote: On Aug 26, Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems like everybody agrees on switching to exim, but nothing as been I don't think so. Would anyone

Re: [RFC] Exim as standard Debian MTA?

1998-10-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 27 Oct 1998, Kai Henningsen wrote: My favorite is exim, because it is very configurable. Vmailer is quite limited once you try to go beyond a simple configuration. If anything that is the worst part of exim :| It's configuration format still seems complicated to me. It's by

Re: [RFC] Exim as standard Debian MTA?

1998-10-28 Thread Alexander Koch
On Tue, 27 October 1998 17:36:44 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: I've always found exim's configuration to be formidable. It is configurable but not easially configurable. You do have the read the (very long) documents detailing the mechanics for what is going on and have to understand them

Re: [RFC] Exim as standard Debian MTA?

1998-10-28 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 05:36:44PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: It's by far the simplest MTA configuration I have ever worked with (and that is old sendmail (sendmail.cf, no M4), smail, and exim. I've always found exim's configuration to be formidable. It is configurable but not

Re: [RFC] Exim as standard Debian MTA?

1998-10-28 Thread Georg Bauer
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After that it is not terribly bad.. But definately not something I would wish on someone who does not understand mail. Uhm - someone who doesn't understand mail shouldn't fiddle around with _any_ MTA. Far to dangerous. So I

Re: [RFC] Exim as standard Debian MTA?

1998-08-27 Thread Alexander Koch
On Wed, 26 August 1998 22:16:47 +, Joseph Carter wrote: It was generally agreed to start moving to exim, but it was decided then that we should wait and see what vmailer has to offer. I'm still using the hamm exim because last I tried the slink version it was a big mess. I'd be interested

Re: [RFC] Exim as standard Debian MTA?

1998-08-27 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 06:38:07AM +0200, Alexander Koch wrote: It was generally agreed to start moving to exim, but it was decided then that we should wait and see what vmailer has to offer. I'm still using the hamm exim because last I tried the slink version it was a big mess. I'd be

Re: [RFC] Exim as standard Debian MTA?

1998-08-26 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 04:04:23PM +0200, Vincent Renardias wrote: [Not sure if this ought to go in debian-policy or here] Policy I would think. I've setting mail followups to head there. Several times already there has been discussions about using exim as the standard Debian mailer instead