From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 9:43:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B850A37B627 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:43:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG) Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 13MvQr-0007Jb-00; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:43:49 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA16052; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:43:48 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:43:48 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail Vs Exim To: Clarence Brown Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <000201c002e9$936cf200$8c6896d1@granitepost.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10-Aug-00 at 09:33, Clarence Brown (clabrown@granitepost.com) wrote: > > patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG > > This is something of a religious issue, like the vi-vs-emacs debate. > > It depends heavily on your personal definition of 'better'. > > > > Sendmail has the advantage of a larger userbase and a longer history. > > Exim has the advantage of -MUCH- easier to understand configuration > > files. > > > > ... > > > > I switched to exim several years ago when sendmail didn't support > > virtual domains at all. I've been extremely happy with the > > flexability and ease of configuration as compared to Sendmail. > > Could you also compare Exim with Qmail? I've been considering a > switch to Qmail and had never heard of Exim. I've never used qmail; but I understand that exim and qmail are fairly similar in many respects. At the time that I chose exim, I looked at the docs for both, and chose exim because it appeared to have better virtual domain support. The exim-vs-qmail topic comes up occasionally on the exim mailing lists. You can find out more about exim, including pointers to the mailing lists and list archives, at http://www.exim.org/ -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message