Though Philip also forgot to say
It's damn easy to convert over from Sendmail, if you have yourself planned. I
spent a week looking at what I had to convert translate etc. (which was even
more complicated as I was moving platforms too. But including the multiple
domains, email addresses and everything it took me very little time..
Now I need to build a program to add accounts, then to add aliases to the
proper domain file. But I am being lazy
Jason
On 27 Jul 2000, at 9:39, Julian King wrote:
Subject: Re: [Exim] exim as a replacement for sendmail
To: exim-users@???
Date sent: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:39:58 +0100 (BST)
From: Julian King <jpk28@???>
> >
> > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, robert rotman wrote:
> >
> > > 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...
> >
> > Because I am not a sendmail person, not having been anywhere near it for 10
> > years, and also because I am not familiar with the many Linux distributions,
> > and only vauguely familiar with Linux at all, since I develop on Solaris.
>
> Also...
>
> - The FAQ tells you how to do these things and far more.
> - The documentation tells you how to do these things and far far more.
> - There is an exim configuration program that comes with Debian, and
> probably others.
> - The default configuration does what most people actually want with
> minimal munging - send email.
>
>
> Julian
>
>
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Jason Robertson
Network Analyst
jason@???
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