Need to build a new mail server

Pollywog lists-fbsd at shadypond.com
Fri May 30 18:17:48 UTC 2008


On Friday 30 May 2008 18:09:48 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:

> exim: If I were setting up a large complicated installation for say an
> ISP or a mail hosting system, exim is what I would use.  I've heard
> people say that they didn't understand the configuration file, but I
> don't see what the problem is.  It is straight forward and direct.
> You just need to remember that in some sections of the configuration
> file, the order of directives matter.  exim also has this built-in
> procmail replacement (exim filters) in its mail delivery.  Of course,
> sieve has largely replaced the need for this.

I have not used Exim with *BSD's but I used it with Debian at one time and it 
was easy to set up.  More recently, the configuration became complicated, at 
least with Debian.

So I stuck with Postfix.


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