Yes, Exim is essentially a drop in replacement for /usr/lib/sendmail. But,
that doesn't neccessarily mean that the configuration facilities must be
the same.
Sendmail's default configuration files aren't as functional as you say
they are; it's the Linux distributions (e.g. Debian) that make the changes
to the config files such that they are as flexible as you want them to be.
Try downloading Sendmail from sendmail.net and you'll see that Sendmail's
default configuration is far from flexible. And, Sendmail's ridiculous
configuration facilities does not make it very easy to make as flexible as
you desire.
All in all, downloading Sendmail from sendmail.net will provide no more
default functionality than downloading Exim. And Exim's simple
configuration makes it much easier to customize Exim to suit your needs.
However, I do agree that procmail should be used by default (if available)
in the Exim configuration file. It's relatively simple to add and works
fine even if the system doesn't have Procmail available.
If you check the list-archives, you'll see that I recently posted the
configuration directives to make Exim use procmail by default.
Regards,
-JRV
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:06:51PM +0200, robert rotman wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> There is somthing like:
>
> "Exim has adopted the Sendmail interface so that it can be a straight
> replacement for `/usr/lib/sendmail'."
>
> in "http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.00/doc/html/oview.html".
>
> Why does the default-configure-file not contain the same funktionality as
> most of the sendmail-configuration which comes with the various
> distributions (eg. Linux distributions):
> virtusertable, generictable, access, the procmail pipe...
>
> I've tried to make my own configure-file and posting it later but
> I'm not that experianced that i got all features to work:(
>
> my question: has anyone a configuartion file with these features?
> can it be shipped with upcoming versions of exim?
>
> robert
>
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