[Cialug] postfix or exim on Debian?

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

On 2010-08-04 at 12:15:05, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>What are the merits of either?  Are either being actively improved? 
>This isn't an Internet-facing situation that I'm asking about.

The merits of exim are that it is the default. Beyond that, you'll have 
to ask someone else what makes it valuable as i don't know. On regular 
(aka, non e-mail server) systems i just go with exim and use "dpkg-
reconfigure exim4-config" to make changes. My e-mail server, however, 
runs Postfix. The MTAs i'm most familiar with are Qmail and Postfix, but 
Postfix is easier to configure. And given that Qmail's latest release 
was in 1998, it seems safe to say that it is no longer maintained. I got 
a good 8 or 9 years out of Qmail though. It was good in its day.

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