
24 Dec
2023
24 Dec
'23
4:49 p.m.
| From: Giles Orr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | "exim4" is usually (not always) installed on Debian systems. | From: Anthony de Boer via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | Exim4 would be the right solution on whichever host you designate your | mailserver. | From: Michael Galea via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | | On my mail server (which runs an exim4 smarthost) my /etc/aliases resembles: 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? Postfix tries to be a Sendmail replacement, but better. That made the transition easier. Security-by-design has been a focus of Postfix. I seem to remember at least one disastrous security problem with Exim.