On 2023-12-24 11:49, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
I used to use Sendmail but switched to Postfix some time this century. Why do you choose Exim instead? Is it just that Exim is the default on debian?
A lot depends on which one you know how to drive. I've run Exim at a couple of jobs and know some of the experts online, so it's what I grab when I have to set one up. Note, I use a single config file the way the Exim community means for it to be done and nuke Debian's attempt at modularizing when that's the underlying OS. In the past I've had occasion to drive smail2, smail3, qm**l, sendmail, postfix, exim, and nullmailer over the course of being postmaster at a few places. Most of that I'm pleased not to have to revisit. (Note I blip the vowels from qm**l as was the custom on alt.sysadmin.recovery back in the day; a certain MTA author grepped his Usenet feed and would join any discussion that mentioned his work so it became one of the things not mentioned there.) (And apropos that newsgroup and MTAs, someone there had a formal curse: "May your sendmail.cf be edited in Notepad, only to be discovered on the next reboot".) Merry Christmas, everyone. Anthony