Fedora Core 2 wishlists

[Jean-Rene Cormier]

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 10:11, =?ISO-8859-1?Q? Nils O. Sel=E5sdal?= wrote:
> 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..

That's easy to do with Postfix too, you only need to setup relayhost =
mailserver.yourisp.com in your main.cf

Jean-Rene Cormier