RE: FW: Re: [Exim] Exim on a single-user system

> > The only snag with having a MTA set up 'out of the box' is that it can't
> > be setup correctly (unless the packager's mastered ESP ;-)); having an
> > misconfigured MTA is probably worse than not having one at all, and you
> > can guarantee that however good the install/config routine is some
> > lusers simply won't know what to put in the fields.

> Debian did something like that, though I don't know whether it
> was successful.

Debian has implemented a way to configure Exim out of the box so to speak.
This provided a useful base from which to get going with using Exim. The
configuration is very easily done through answering a few questions about
your setup. The questions are fairly basic and I would expect that the
majority of people trying to setup an MTA. Although I have now altered the
default debian configuration for various reasons, it does form the base of
two mail servers that I admin and has been running for a few months with no
know problems (this is probably where someone lets me know of a few ;-)).

As for misconfiguring an MTA it doesn't matter whether it is a
install/config routine or editing exim.conf directly or whatever method it
is configured some users will make mistakes whether it is through lack of
knowledge or a typo and end up with a misconfigured MTA. If anything I would
expect that having a install/config routine would reduce these errors (can
always check that at least the entries appear sensible) compared to manually
editing the configuration file.

Justin