Re: [Exim] unsecure, slow, not 100% RFC-compliant?

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Autor: xq
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To: Nigel.Metheringham
CC: exim-users@exim.org
Betreff: Re: [Exim] unsecure, slow, not 100% RFC-compliant?
ok, thanks for your answer, i will use Exim 4 for some thousand E-Mail
's per day, i hope its "strong" enough to handle it :)

now i found a nice howto and a manger: http://silverwraith.com/vexim
(very nice!)

i hope i get what i want/need, thanks



Am 25.6.2004 schrieb "Nigel Metheringham"
<Nigel.Metheringham@???>:

>On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 12:28, xq@??? wrote:
>> But i have also read some sites about comparison of MTA's, please read
>> self:
>> http://homepages.tesco.net/%7EJ.deBoynePollard/Reviews/UnixMTSes/
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>Most of whats written there has obviously not been checked or refers to
>old exim versions.  For example:-
>      * Web page comments are rubbish
>      * directors is exim3 which has been obsolete for ages
>      * scaling comments are reporting rumour with no backup

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>> and
>> http://www.geocities.com/mailsoftware42/
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>Thats mostly garbage too:-
>      * Looks like its been written after a 5 minute look at debian
>      * Says its for exim 4.2 but all the links are to 3.2
>      * Security comments are way out of date

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>> there stand Exim will be unsecure and slow, on some boards i become the
>> information it will not be 100% RFC-compliant - is that true?
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>RFC compliance is very high - but not 100% because you can configure to
>not follow RFCs (eg HELO policy handling). Some RFCs are seriously
>outdated in the current environment. Some are not implemented.
>
>    Nigel.
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>[ Nigel Metheringham           Nigel.Metheringham@??? ]
>[ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]

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