Other people are more advanced and can answer you better. If you
can use my 2 cent, here're my comments:
You could try to set up /etc/hosts lookup instead of DNS to avoid
a problem mentioned earlier. And also set an unthaw interval
long enough to accomodate the period between "line ups" or just
set up a cron to do exim -q whenever the line is up. I guess that
could work.
I think you need to look at sendmail. There's a field tech note
on how to write sendmail rules. You should figure out how to debug
a sendmail session, passing an address to be parsed to various rule
sets. And finally, learn how to build sendmail.cf using M4.
And know the various mailers being used by Sendmail. I think that's
how you learn an MTA.
After that, the transition to Exim is easier.
For me, it was easier to get started on Sendmail. Then it got
harder to do any custom configuration. It was time to dump sendmail
for exim.
Chan
-----Original Message-----
From: sebastien.major@???
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mailto:sebastien.major@crdp.ac-caen.fr]
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 12:22 PM
To: exim-users@???
Subject: [Exim] Exim vs qmail and others.
hi,
I am a really new exim and sendmail like user.
I need to delivery mail on a WAN : mail should
be delivery and taken from server host 2 or 3 times a day.
One possible fix : Fetchmail and junk for get message
and a smtp client to send on the real server.
That is not a good way for me: am I right?
If I do not take this solution, I would like
to know what are differences between sendmail, exim,
qmail and others.
I read that exim has a really fast algorithm for delivering,
but, if speed is not a constraint, how can I decide?
I would like to learn one MTA, why choose exim?
Best regards.
/sebastien.major@???
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