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

Vadim Vygonets wrote:

>
> Quoth Pete Barnwell on Tue, Jan 01, 2002:
>
>>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.

eximconfig. It works, but it is not 'out of the box'. It asks you the
important questions that Pete points out the package maintainer can't
know the answers to. If the installer doesn't know the answers either,
you have a seriously broken MTA. :-(

derek