Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

From: Steve Lamb (grey_at_dmiyu.org)
Date: 01/30/04

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    Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:36:22 -0800
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    Ian Perry wrote:
    > I know this question is subjective to personal preferences.... Is there an
    > advantage to exim over sendmail or vice versa for ease of setup/maintenance
    > etc ? I would be interested in comments from those who have used both.

         Sendmail - so difficult to configure the configuration language needs a
    macro language to make sense of it.

         Exim - so easy to configure that in most cases you can do it with the
    comments in the config file.

         That's where the comperison ends for me. I've never found a need for
    sendmail in the modern 'net populated with Postfix and Exim. 

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