qmail dead ? was: [Gllug] ezmlm status?

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Thu Mar 18 15:56:40 UTC 2004


On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 03:35:59PM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Bruce Richardson writes:
> 
> >That said, I'll take Exim over Sendmail any time, as I've never
> >yet encountered a complex task that I couldn't solve cleanly with Exim.
> 
> Try routing mail based on sender, rather than recipient. This is where
> sendmail comes into its own, and I haven't found other MTAs than can
> match it.

Um, how hard have you looked?  The ease of sender-based routing (and
routing based on any other property of a message) was one of the reasons
I chose Exim.

> Yes, I know it's not a common thing to want to do

In fact, it's quite a common thing to need to do (for example, to avoid
eternal loops when running a mail filter on a different box), it's just
that a lot of people don't realise that it's possible at all.

-- 
Bruce

The ice-caps are melting, tra-la-la-la.  All the world is drowning,
tra-la-la-la-la.  -- Tiny Tim.
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