Re: [EXIM] WishList Request

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Author: James Dehnert
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To: Julian
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] WishList Request
Julian wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Someone pointed out that exim was getting somewhat 'bloated' these days.
> Personally I don't agree, in that almost all of the new features are ones
> that I am interested in. However, in the same way that you can choose
> which sets of databases should be supported, it would be nice if certain
> features could be chosen relatively selectively at compile time, or if you
> feel like being extra flash make them dynamic libs, or indeed make both of
> those options. As an example, we currently don't use exim filters, but there
> doesn't appear to be any way to not include the relevant code? Whilst I
> can select which directors, routers and transports are compiled in...
>
> Does that make any sense?
>
> Julian
> Unix Admin, Internet Vision
>


One thing that I would find useful would be a simple client ONLY
compile option. Just about all of the 100 + machines I have right now
are all set to send all mail to the main server. Most of my e-mail
clients use pop or imap to connect to the server, so I have most all of
the clients running exim from inetd. There could probably be a stripped
down version of exim that only has the smart_host listed in its config
file.

I know I can do this with the existing application, but I suspect
things be made smaller and simpler ( from an admin POV ) if we can
dispense with everything short of "deliver everything there".

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