Quoth Robert Franklin on Thu, Feb 25, 1999:
> We're in the process of replacing our mail system and Exim is very high
> (if not at the top) of our list of replacement systems.
Replacing sendmail with exim was pretty easy. It's almost a
drop-in replacement.
> We manage mail for about 20,000 users and have about 500 lists (currently
> served by Majordomo and Hypermail).
The handling of majordomo mailing lists on our site is not
different from what we did with sendmail (/etc/aliases has
aliases for mailing lists and owners). Everything is piped
throught the majordomo script. Check the FAQ, it has some more
useful info.
I don't know anything about Hypermail, though.
> The bulk of users have their mail
> delivered to a local mailbox and access it with IMAP or POP.
I assume you already have IMAP and POP3 daemons installed and
running. They should work.
> There are,
> however, 30 subdomains which we forward mail on to specific servers for.
Ok, this stuff is easily configurable and there is some info
about that in the manual and, I assume, in the FAQ.
> (The hardware is a large Sun with RAID disk, which I think is more than
> up to the job...)
Oh my. What do you need such beast for? I mean, RAID? It's
more than you need, honestly. But if you want to do parallel
delivery of your mailing lists (more than one process), and have
high mail traffic, install much memory.
> We're currently using the PP MMTA but do not require the X400 support any
> longer.
Good, exim is designed for SMTP.
> We've been working on the Exim configuration and so on, so we're not after
> help with that (at the moment, anyway!); we're really just after
> information and experiences from people using Exim in this kind of role
> (where it's being used on a machine where most mail is delivered locally).
Here, all the mail is delivered locally (except of some mailing
lists). But we don't have as many users and mailing lists as you
do.
> If you could help, please mail me back at R.C.Franklin@???.
I'm not going to do that again.
Vadik.
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