Fedora Core 2 wishlists

[Nils O. Selåsdal]

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 14:57, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 13:41, Jean-Rene Cormier wrote:
> > I think Postfix is pretty much the best alternative since it even has a
> > sendmail command (called the Postfix to Sendmail compatibility
> > interface) so programs that sends mail using sendmail will still work.
> > I'm not aware of any other MTA that can replace sendmail in this way,
> > though I could be wrong...
> 
> Most MTAs have some degree of sendmail command line compatibility simply
> because its the historic unix way of mail injection - however since its
> also evolved and never been documented its also interesting to implement
> :-(
> 
> Exim can be used as a drop in replacement for sendmail (including
> handling aliases & .forwards, but the config is significantly
> different).
> 
> I'd look favourably on the idea of having the default default (as in
> absolutely no questions asked on install) MTA be something that does no
> local delivery at all, but is intended to punt everything to your
> company or ISP smarthost
"Exim is not designed for storing mail for dial-in hosts. When the
volumes of such mail are large, it is better to get the messages
´delivered¡ into files (that is, off Exim's queue) and subsequently
passed on to the dial-in hosts by other means."

This makes exim a rather poor choice for a default MTA for me ;)
imho sendmail is nice as the default MTA, making it forward to your
ISP is rather easy..

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Nils Olav Selåsdal
System Engineer
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