Author: Nico Erfurth Date: To: Mike Richardson CC: Yann Golanski, Philip Hazel, exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Proposal for an Exim course in Cambridge
Mike Richardson wrote: >>>Last year there was a big attendance because of the release of Exim 4.
>>>This year's course will be essentially identical to last year's, so we
>>>don't expect such a big attendance. Also, it may be that the market has
>>>saturated, and there isn't enough demand to run a course at all.
>>
>>So, how about changing the format a bit? How about doing a one day
>>presentation of Exim as per ususal and another day of `practical talks'
>>on different aspects of Exim: large scales -- yes, I'll update my talk and
>>give it again... No! Come back! Don't run away! it's not that bad!!! --
>>LDAP, MySQL, spamassassin, exiscan and so on.
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> Sounds like a good idea. I was on last year's course so have no need for
> that but would quite like to hear about other ways in which exim is used. I
> did a (short) exim/exiscan/SA/sophie talk to a LUG a few months back and it
> went down well so I suspect that there is demand for such talks.
I think Virus/Spam scanning and blocking are highly demanded topics.
> I'll add some suggestions: large scale virtual domains, authenticated
> SMTP.
I think LDAP is also a topic that becomes demanded more and more.