[Gllug] Restating my problem

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 07:56:38PM +0000, Mike wrote:
> Sendmail does require an understanding of mail systems to set up
> correctly,

So does Exim, for that matter.  They're more similar in that respect
than other MTAs.  Sendmail is more fully featured - Exim doesn't support
all those legacy systems, for a start - but Exim is far more accessible.
Sendmail is overfeatured for most set-ups, with a baroque featureset
that needs to be learned (if you want to claim to understand your
system) over and above any understanding of mail systems in general.
You can build a Sendmail-clone mail structure with Exim if you like, but
you usually don't have to.

If someone wanted to learn how mail systems work, I'd contend that
they'd be far better of with Exim, where they'd have to build the
system themselves and see its structure laid out clearly in the config
file, than with Sendmail where they would have to learn the arcana that
has accreted in its complex structure.

-- 
Bruce

I unfortunately do not know how to turn cheese into gold.
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