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
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