exim

[Thomas Woerner]

Hello,

who wants to have exim in Fedora 2?

I have built a source RPM:
http://people.redhat.com/twoerner/SRPMS/fc2/exim-4.24-1.src.rpm

This is exim version 4.24 with support for
- LDAP, NIS, TLS, perl
- content scanning (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan-acl/)
- sa-exim (http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html).

Thanks,
Thomas

[WipeOut]

Thomas Woerner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> who wants to have exim in Fedora 2?
>
> I have built a source RPM:
> http://people.redhat.com/twoerner/SRPMS/fc2/exim-4.24-1.src.rpm
>
> This is exim version 4.24 with support for
> LDAP, NIS, TLS, perl
> content scanning (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan-acl/)
> sa-exim (http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html).
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas

Personally I would like qmail, main reason being that qmail, vpopmail, 
qmailadmin and Courier-IMAP combined lets you create a DB driven mail 
server with web management and quotas and the works..

Later

[Rik van Riel]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, WipeOut wrote:
> Personally I would like qmail, main reason being that qmail, vpopmail, 
> qmailadmin and Courier-IMAP combined lets you create a DB driven mail 
> server with web management and quotas and the works..

That's nice, but last I looked there was an issue:

1) the qmail license doesn't allow distribution of a
   patched qmail, meaning only an unpatched qmail RPM
   can be distributed

2) almost all the qmail users I know have applied a
   number of patches to their qmail installation

That would making the distribution of a qmail RPM not too
useful for people who actually want to use qmail ...

[Gordon Messmer]

> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, WipeOut wrote:
> > Personally I would like qmail, main reason being that qmail, vpopmail, 
> > qmailadmin and Courier-IMAP combined lets you create a DB driven mail 
> > server with web management and quotas and the works..

You can do the same thing with Courier-MTA and Quica.  The whole setup 
will be GPL (and thus, aligned with Fedora's goals), and considerably 
easier to set up:

http://quica.sourceforge.net/

[Ryan Ayers]

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 08:07, Thomas Woerner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> who wants to have exim in Fedora 2?
>
> I have built a source RPM:
> http://people.redhat.com/twoerner/SRPMS/fc2/exim-4.24-1.src.rpm
>
> This is exim version 4.24 with support for
> LDAP, NIS, TLS, perl
> content scanning (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan-acl/)
> sa-exim (http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html).
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas

I would like to have it included as an option.

Ryan

[Rik van Riel]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Thomas Woerner wrote:
> who wants to have exim in Fedora 2?

That would be WONDERFUL ...
> I have built a source RPM:
> http://people.redhat.com/twoerner/SRPMS/fc2/exim-4.24-1.src.rpm

Would it be an idea to put the exim RPM for Fedora Core 1
in a small yum repository on your page, so people can get
it with up2date ? ;)

[Darryl Luff]

Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Thomas Woerner wrote:
> > who wants to have exim in Fedora 2?

...
> Would it be an idea to put the exim RPM for Fedora Core 1
> in a small yum repository on your page, so people can get
> it with up2date ? ;)

Or even better, submit it to fedora.us so it goes into the existing 
repository, and eventually folds into Fedora as the projects are merged.

I too use Exim by the way, and would love to see it included.

[Dax Kelson]

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 07:07, Thomas Woerner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> who wants to have exim in Fedora 2?
>
> I have built a source RPM:
> http://people.redhat.com/twoerner/SRPMS/fc2/exim-4.24-1.src.rpm
>
> This is exim version 4.24 with support for
> LDAP, NIS, TLS, perl
> content scanning (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan-acl/)
> sa-exim (http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html

It uses alternatives too. Cool!

Good call with using a priority less than 30 so as to not surprise sys
admins of existing RH/Fedora boxes.

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs
(former qmail and now Postfix user)

[Sebastien JUST]

Thomas Woerner a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> who wants to have exim in Fedora 2?
>
> I have built a source RPM:
> http://people.redhat.com/twoerner/SRPMS/fc2/exim-4.24-1.src.rpm
>
> This is exim version 4.24 with support for
> LDAP, NIS, TLS, perl
> content scanning (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan-acl/)
> sa-exim (http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html).
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas

I think it would be great to have exim included as an alternative mail 
server. I personnaly have installed Exim on RedHat 7.3 and this works 
perfectly (with LDAP / maildir support) even if it required a fair 
amount of work for compiling, configuring etc ...
As a simple user, I would be glad to have this alternative well-packaged 
in further versions of Fedora (Fedora 2) and as a new package in up2date 
for Fedora1.

Thanks,
Sébastien