> From: Walt Reed
>
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 03:30:30PM -0700, Aviram Carmi said:
> > However, I found out that neither Red Hat nor Mandrake have
> > "built-in" support for exim.
> >
> > I am a complete novice when it comes to Linux, and I rather not
> > install program from "scratch", nor would I like to mess up with the
> > default OS configuration.
>
> Frankly, this is something that is a valuable skill. If you don't want
> to figure it out (and it really isn't all that hard) then you
> are stuck with whatever the OS vendor (redhat or mandrake) offer, or hope
that
> someone creates a package for you (there are probably some out there,
> but I didn't find any on rpmfind.net.) The question then
> becomes, do you trust this third party package??
First off, I agree, Exim works great... It's made my life much easier.
Sendmail is just complete garbage anymore, it's too complicated to change the
configuration and it has so many security holes and bugs/etc... not to mention
being slow... Postfix looked like too much of a headache to configure, so I
switched to exim on the recommendation of a former GNU volunteer. Exim
certainly keeps the system load down over Sendmail.
As far as packages go... If you're running Mandrake, you can go to
www.rpmhelp.net and get the latest exim in a pre-compiled package for Mandrake
courtesy of one of the people who helps build the security in Mandrake. It has
the exiscan patch built-in. I really don't see why that build wouldn't work
with Redhat also... I never have any problems applying redhat packages.
