Yes, the reason why my company uses it is because it enables us to
make it do what we and our customers want it to.
This is all the better if I can back that up with "roughly a quarter
of the world's mail servers are running Exim which is an indication of
its ability, reliability, resilience and robustness" etc.
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+exim@???> wrote:
> >
> Am Di den 24. Jan 2012 um 15:02 schrieb Graeme Fowler:
>> On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 14:28 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
>> > I like the statistic from security space[0] for obvious reason ;-)
>>
>> ...which shows the rise of Ubuntu as an installed server OS, and
>> WHM/cPanel as hosting control panels - all of which use Exim by default.
>>
>> There's good reason for that choice having been made, but it is not one
>> made by most of the admins involved - it's been pre-selected for them.
>
> Might be.
>
>> Notably however Exim is now not installed in RHEL6 (and therefore
>> CentOS6); it is included in the EPEL repository and can be chosen, but
>> the default is Postfix. I doubt that will contribute greatly.
>
> Postfix is much less flexible than exim. However, I like to suggest
> postfix for not expert users if they ask for an MTA as the possibility
> for harm is smaller.
>
>> For me "it's really popular" is not a massive consideration when looking
>> at software. "We can make it do what we need it to" overrides
>> everything.
>
> True. The statistic above I use for arguing with managers. They like if
> they have a graphic. And if it fit with my preferred technical solution
> ...
>
> Regards
> Klaus
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